The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation – Lord Halifax, 1750 It is difficult…
MPs expenses
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The News International scandal is just the tip of the iceberg of unelected oligarchies and corporate power in Britain’s democracy, according to…
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I have been back in the UK for eight days and so far I have been unable to listen to any soundbite…
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They say everyone has 20:20 hindsight, but with each new report that is released it becomes clear that the only sensible response…
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The first scalp of the new government was claimed by the media over the weekend and, surprising all those who were betting…
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Just when I thought all the residual anger I could muster had been squeezed from the MPs expenses scandal, along came some of…
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Quote from a ‘senior source’ talking about the latest expenses scandal: We were led up the garden path by Gordon. I have…
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be -Kurt Vonnegut Having trounced the…
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I have been having a lot of fun in recent weeks taking the mickey out of the hipper inhabitants of my neighbourhood. …
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When this blog was named (by a very talented writer, if a slacker when it comes to updates) and I was looking…
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