The Guardian, Times and Independent all seem to have read more into Brown’s speech yesterday than was necessarily there. Is this the usual nonsense, or is there actually something going on? Guardian: Chancellor Swipes at Blair and Milburn Times: Turf … Continue reading →

A very good piece by Linda Colley on the US elections (as if there aren’t already enough pieces on the bloody things) in today’s Guardian which I’ve only just noticed. It says nothing particularly new, by it is a very … Continue reading →

The San Francisco Chronicle wins today’s best headline award, as well as the award for stating the bloody obvious. A majority of Europeans would prefer to see Bush lose in November? Well I never! Meanwhile, oil prices hit a record … Continue reading →

Well, the Labour membership have apparently managed to force a vote about the Iraq war at the conference, but this still doesn’t stop the party’s website clogging itself up with unintuitive design, little easily-accessible content, constant demands for money, and … Continue reading →

Well, well, well… Seems like the Chancellor’s all over the shop in the run-up to the Labour Conference. Following yesterday’s fluff-piece in the Guardian magazine, today Gordon Brown gets a surprsingly favourable interview in the pro-Tory Telegraph (registration required) and … Continue reading →

Kerry has pretty much ditched attempts to fight the election on the basis of domestic policy and is staking it all on ruining Bush’s credentials over foreign policy and the war on terror. So, will this work? The smart money … Continue reading →

Great profile/interview with Gordon Brown in today’s Guardian magazine – here. “When people talk about party politics it is almost purely in the sense of ambitions – who’s up, who’s down, who’s in, who’s out. But it would be outrageous … Continue reading →

Bad pun, sorry… But there seems to be a lot of interest over the possibility of Turkey joining the EU at the moment. Turkey should, I believe, at some stage become a full member of the EU. It is, after … Continue reading →

I’m still trying to work this out. According to Crooked Timber, the highly-respected 87 year old Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm has been deported from the United States. It seems like no one is quite aware yet what the reasoning is. … Continue reading →

As autumn draws in with frosty crispness and burnished leaves thoughts naturally turn to Teddy Roosevelt, whose comment to a friend on how he would fight off a would-be assassin (he came to the presidency after the murder of President … Continue reading →

Via Bloggerheads, an interesting post pointing out the somewhat unusual attitude the UK seems to have towards terrorism, which was itself a follow-up to another interesting post. Why am I bemoaning the UKIP for being fascist? We’re pretty much living … Continue reading →

Yep, Twatty McTwatface is at it again, accusing Michael Howard of nicking his wonderful ideas on immigration. (The fact that the UKIP’s immigration policy which Howard has supposedly pinched was itself copied off Canada and Australia seems to have been … Continue reading →

because you are the only person on God’s earth who can help me… I don’t want to die, I don’t deserve it and neither do the women deserve to be prisoners… Mr Blair, I am nothing to you. It’s just … Continue reading →

In my continuing trawl of blog type things, I happened across this little entry from a eurosceptic blog I noticed a while back. Sounds like the UKIP MEPs are (surprise, surprise) a bunch of thugs. However, “Strangely, although there were … Continue reading →