Dear Terry,
Many thanks for your letter. If you would be so good as to look behind you and use your binoculars to scan the horizon, there is an outside chance that you might locate the point.
The letter I refer to was printed in last week’s Economist, and relates to the Iraq war (yes, I know, I’m sorry, I’m sick of it too, but sometimes the only way to stop the flow of steam from my aural cavities is to scream; and not wanting to lose my job right now, blogging will have to do).
McKeating’s Niqab
A cultural ‘Deal or No Deal’
More Trough Snufflings
Government plans to roll back Freedom of Information
Meacher madness?
…and why McDonnell rocks the Labour Left
A useless cash-in on the craze for mawkish sentimentality and denial.
We’re shafted several times over by our first-past-the-post electoral system. Let me count the ways: it’s unrepresentative, it occludes choice, it wastes a majority of votes, it under-represents women (with interesting second-order effects on corruption). It gave us Tony bloody Blair.
And according to this recent study from the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, it also hands us uglier politicians. Read More
Why I Disdain Scottish Nationalism
Wot no imperialism?
The Man Who Ruined Britain
Not Graham Norton, apparently