It’s too early to start counting chickens, but it’s starting to look as though I may not need to stay up till silly o’clock to see who’s going to be the 44th President of the US. Why can’t elections be held on Fridays? It would be so much more fun to stay up all night [...]
Hardly a TV news item on the US election seems to go by without at least one reporter or pundit trotting out a line like “As the race for the Whitehouse hots up, the Internet is increasingly becoming the main political battleground….” The political parties on both sides of the Atlantic do seem to have [...]
Oh dear, almost a week without posting, what a poor show. Before I ramble on, I must thank Miss Schlegel for the plug in her piece on three humungous artworks last week (love the video in that post). I had intended posting about the disgusting 42 day detention and secret inquests vote, and then on [...]
If you have a chance to vote in the election for the London mayor today, please, please stop Boris Johnson being elected. He may play the loveable buffoon, but the reality is that Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a hard-right Thatcherite, who: despises anyone not of his class was pro-Iraq war was against the [...]
I suppose I ought to follow up my previous posts with a comment on the election result. Sadly the Lib Dems didn’t manage to unseat the Labour MP here, so Dulwich residents are going to be suffering from another four years of Irritable Jowell Syndrome. Her majority did go down by about 4,000, mostly in [...]
In case anyone’s interested, I ended up voting Green. Just hope to God Tessa Jowell doesn’t beat the Lib Dems by one vote….
Isn’t it amazing how MPs suddenly get interested in their constituents’ views in the weeks before an election? I’ve had several letters, a paper and a questionnaire from my MP Tessa Jowell (archetypal Blairite with allegedly very dodgy husband) in the last month. If only she’d been as keen to hear my thoughts and actually [...]
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