Archive for the 'Politics' Category
Here is an article that strikes a chord with today’s feeling of powerlessness to influence the political debate. An erudite polemic that barely puts a word wrong.
Charlie Brooker: To politicians, we’re little more than meaningless blobs on a monitor | Comment is free | The Guardian .
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A Principled Stand
David Davis may just put the people’s trust back into politics. He has taken a stand on a principle. A very good principle of defending civil liberties that really do go all the way back to 1215.
He has also taken a stand against the tawdry deals that Labour made to secure the vote on 42 [...]
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Harriet Harman Backs Boris
With thanks to Guido Fawkes, and his lovely blog, this highly amusing hack into Harriet Harman’s own blog was discovered. It seems that she is leaving the Labour Party and backing Boris for Mayor.
Unfortunately it has been discovered and is no longer live, but you can still enjoy the screen shot below.
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David Abrahams
“Well that’s enough; I can’t take anymore,” as Maximo Park said on their super song, Graffiti.
As I have said before, funding of our political parties has to be sorted out. Not only does the current reliance on donations expose our politicians to charges of corruption (even if they are completely innocent, there is still the [...]
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