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Category Archives: Viewpoint
Ed hapless; future hopeless; LibDems shameless (unless they cross the floor)?
Ed Miliband continues to lack traction with the electorate; Nick Clegg tilts at EU rainbows whilst fully aware that David Cameron, holding the LibDems over a barrel, barely cares; unemployment is approaching 3 million. How much worse can it get? … Continue reading
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Tagged David Cameron, Ed Miliband, elections, Nick Clegg, political defections, Sue Marsh
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All we want for Christmas is our NHS
It’s not my usual practice to post pics on this blog, but today is an exception. I don’t suppose Keep Our NHS Public will mind my showing you their Christmas card…. And I’m sure they’ll like it if you sign … Continue reading
For Tories, social capital is like private banking – invisible and off-limits
Is it surprising that privileged folk on the Right are reluctant, perhaps unable, to recognise the significance of social capital? This apparent perceptual incapacity might by some be thought of as a rather convenient position to take. For example, the Conservative MP … Continue reading
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Tagged connections, influence, Louise Mensch, off-shore accounts, power, social capital
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LibDems prop up the Coalition; they don’t protect us from it
It takes a special sort of bare-faced nerve to be a LibDem politician right now. Extraordinarily, they ask us to agree that the Coalition is being molded by them in positive ways and would, by inference, be ‘worse’ without them. … Continue reading
The Murdock miasma driving Clegg via Cable from Cameron – what next?
The extraordinary revelations of the past week, as grim fact upon grim fact is revealed in the News of the World phone-hacking horror story, are we all agree only the beginning. What comes next, we are also all agreed, is … Continue reading
When ‘morals’ are substituted for money (and vice-versa)
What is the ‘public interest’, in either the media or the civic sense of the phrase? We need to ask this when faced with stories now in the news about how an awful minority amongst media investigators seek to make money. There is nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged hacking, media, morals, News International, News of the World, research, transparency
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Teachers, tasks and taking action
Like most others, I have mixed views about the teachers’ pension strike scheduled for Thursday this week (30 June). Many years ago I too, incensed as a teacher by the past Conservative Government’s position, went on strike a few times; … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Conservative, Ed Miliband, education, emotional intelligence, pensions, strike, teachers
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Male policy wonk decrees on breastfeeding
‘Breastfeeding by UK mothers rises from 76% to 81%‘ is the headline of a report in today’s Guardian. It is, a Government spokesman tells, “encouraging to see an increase in the number of women who start breastfeeding”… Well, yes, most of … Continue reading
The real political enemy is Tory, not New Labour: Six actions for Ed Miliband, now
There’s a serious risk that the Left is about to take its eye off the ball. Many are looking askance at current left-of-centre politics; and the danger is that we’ll forget where the real, pressing threats to fairness and decency in British civic life … Continue reading
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Tory soullessness requires sustained attack
It took barely a few days to show why Labour must always, always be on guard and on the attack against the ConDems. Ed Miliband had hardly finished his ‘I met a man…’ speech – in which he claimed a disabled person … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnie Graf, David Cameron, disability, Ed Miliband, Philip Davies
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Squeezed middles and Mr Miliband missing the message
Ed Miliband’s speech yesterday on Responsibility in the 21st Century made some necessary general points, but squandered these by the mode in which they were presented. This was a wasted opportunity to set out a way forward and offer hope to … Continue reading
No time to lose, if ConDems are to be stopped
Why am I not surprised that Labour now has no lead over the Conservatives? In ordinary times the left might expect considerable advantage at a point where the ConDem coalition is patently under strain, ill-considered changes to the NHS are headlines on a daily basis, and joblessness … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, DE-governance, Ed Miliband, leadership, opinion polls
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Penal reform and much else: Be careful what you wish for, Ed.
Yesterday’s post here was prescient. The Observer front page lead today is ‘We’re losing our claim to be tough on crime – top Tories’ (which translates online to Conservatives risking reputation on law and order, say ministers). Already my fears that change … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, crime, Ed Miliband, Ken Clarke, misogyny, rape
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Eton and equality don’t mix. Please note, Blue Labour.
So here’s today’s Guardian, in a piece with the depressingly predictable news that some 31 of the 1,008 new entrants to this year’s Who’s Who attended Eton: The coalition government is dominated by former public school pupils. Within days of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Robathan, beware, Blue Labour, change, Chris Huhne, David Cameron, Dominic Lawson, equality, Eton, George Osborne, health, Ken Clarke, misogyny, rape
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Why Andrew Rawnsley may have missed the point
The word on the political street is increasingly that Labour must step up both pace and impact, to stand any chance of winning the next election – whenever that might be. The task, it is agreed, is both big and urgent. So how … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Rawnsley, Conservative, David Miliband, DE-governance, Ed Miliband, Labour, leadership, scorched earth
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