You’re still an MP, Tony
With all this talk about Tony Blair taking on some role as a Middle-East envoy for the US, no-one seems to have remembered that he will still be a Labour MP after he steps down as Prime Minister on...
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Gordon Blair
Now I know why its called the Grauniad. Today’s front page heralds the new Labour Party leadership with a photo of the happy couple. A victorious Harriet Harman joins Gordon Blair on stage in...
View ArticleLife Goes On
After the terror attacks in London and Glasgow, there’s obviously been a lot of analysis and opinions flying around, from the mainstream media, security analysts, bloggers and the general public. Its...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need to be Black to Be the British Barack
Cassilis says that a little humility would have served Hillary well, and concludes by making a comparison with British politics: Quick final thought – let’s look at that Clinton character sketch...
View ArticleIs Labour Really On its Knees?
Amid the cacophony of speculation about the future of Gordon Brown’s premiership, the imminent electoral meltdown, and the future direction of the Labour party, I think one aspect is being...
View ArticleThe Wrong Target?
A couple of weeks ago at the Labour Party Conference, Gordon Brown pledged to “enshrine in law Labour’s pledge to end child poverty” although the specifics were hazy. The Campaign to End Child Poverty...
View ArticleDigital Elections, Digital Government
Yesterday, I went to the launch of the Orange’s Digital Election Analysis, a report by Demos Associate Anthony Painter. A key, yet slightly depressing, conclusion was that funding matters. The...
View ArticleThis Is The Digital Election We Have Been Waiting For
Last week, Anthony Painter launched a Digital Election Analysis he wrote for Orange. A key conclusion was the that the eager awaited ‘Digital Election’ we had all been expecting (after the fantastic...
View ArticleOn How We Go To War
Amid all the frantic late night comments about the UN resolution to finally act in Libya, this tweet from @techsoc stood out: All intervention is risky & w/ great downsides. A non-intervention is...
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Putting the Power of Censorship in the Hands of the Mob
English Defence League / Unite Against Fascism protest, by Matthew Wilkinson on Flickr Here’s a post first published earlier today on Labour List (a new venue for me). I hope there will be comments...
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