The latest football fuss about racism (or allegations thereof) appears to have ended in a belated apology from Luis Suarez and Kenny Dalglish (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17004667). The apology for the failure to shake hands isn’t by any means the most significant episode in this sorry story, and it’s important to recognise that much of it has [...]
Those 57 Liberal Democrat MPs, whether on the Government payroll or not, are going to have some very tough choices when they come to vote on all the amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill. It’s been suggested that the difficult position the Party finds itself in is all down to communications. Tell the world about [...]
The Liberal Democrats’ vision of a John Lewis economy, and an end to ‘crony capitalism’, as articulated by Nick Clegg, is welcome. So why, then, is this approach not yet embedded in Government? Rewards for failure, a failure to listen to small business over big property interests, short-termism and the perpetuation of a failed business [...]
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Reading East’s hapless and irrelevant MP has not had one of his better weeks. His bizarre call for Parliament to waste time debating ‘good taste’ in film (see http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/16/meryl-streeps-margaret-thatcher-disrespectful-complains-tory-mp_n_1153185.html), triggered by a viewing of the ‘Iron Lady’ biopic, does nothing for political debate, nor for his constituents. Is he [...]
I’ve now been pointed to the details of new BBC political programming to replace the Politics Show at http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-11-22/bbc-daytime-politics-shows-undergo-restructure. There are a number of things wrong with this. First, it contains the odious right-winger Andrew ‘Brillo Pad’ Neill, who wears his politics on his sleeve, trivialises it and could not conduct an interview if his [...]
