One minister who understands the problem
Ruth Kelly and the MCB

How To Protest
Stopping the War with Hungarian tanks

Like Page 3 model Keeley Hazell, the Delonghi TRN1015T Solaris Oil Filled Radiator will generate warmth on a cold winter’s night

Talking to Iran
What’s left in the way of Iraq options?

More Trough Snufflings
Government plans to roll back Freedom of Information

Meacher madness?
…and why McDonnell rocks the Labour Left

Once Again I’m Proven Right About Humanity’s Frothing Lunatics

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?

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