Politics

The Market Personified

A friend of mine asked me a question: "if the free market is a person, what would the person be like?" Here is...

Asking Questions of Pilger’s Research

The beginning is a good place to start a story. The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally...

UK Cut Loose

I used to be a leftie. The past tense is important; it does not denote a change to my values or beliefs, but...

Placating Placards

Like many distant observers of US politics, I was heartened by the Stewart-Colbert Rally for Sanity and/or Fear. These two presenters of topical...

Progress Without End

In the year 4010, U2 lead singer Bono is hosting a dinner party for his rich, beautiful and powerful friends. Their meal finished,...

Losing a General Election (and hoping nobody notices)

In the immediate aftermath of the 2010 UK General Election, there was a lot of talk about whether any party won and which party...

Leak the Truth, but not Speak the Truth?

For some people, the internet does not exist. For others, the internet is not a free, anarchistic haven but is instead carefully policed...

After The Voting Was Done

In celebration of the birth of a new style of British politics, and the overdue education of the British voter about how their constitution...

The Ballad of Election Night

In memory of Britain's anachronistic electoral system, which hopefully died on May 6, the evening of the 2010 General Election. I. He did not wear his...

The Real Bigot is Brown

Move on. Everyone makes a mistake. Nobody is perfect. There are three phrases you will not hear Peter Mandelson, Harriet Harman,...

How We Lost the War

'The War on Terror'. It is not a phrase you hear much any more. The reason for its decline in usage is...

Hell Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Blair: I have no regrets. Thatcher: I have no regrets. Churchill: I have many regrets. A man without regret is a man who has done...
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