Ivan Goldman
A nice selection of material obviously put together by someone with taste and brains.
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Don't trip up
http://donttripup.blogspot.com
Analysis of British (and international) politics and current affairs, written from a liberal, social democratic, perspective.
- Added on: Apr 14th, 2007
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Stephen
- Listed in: Politics News & Media
- Tags: politics news progressive Liberal UK left
Recent Posts
Talk it down
Yesterday in the Times, Anatole Kaletsky explained why a coordinated international stimulus package needs negotiating at the upcoming G20 meeting and why the Americans are ill-prepared to deliver such a deal. He argues international cooperation is ne...
The state of the Labour Party
As Labour's polling continues to tumble towards the core level of around 30 per cent, I am becoming concerned about the future of the party. A while ago, I accepted that victory in 2010 in unlikely (it may not even be desirable), but as the party's a...
Executive experience
As news emerges that the Liberal Democrats are planning their post-election strategy and preparing for a hung parliament, the question emerges: should they support a Conservative government in the event of no party winning a clear majority? (Setting ...
Defending the national interest
Eurosceptics occasionally enjoy defending Britain's national interest against Brussels, claiming the Commission is unaccountable, burdensome and costly - a European Union of Lilliputians constraining the British Gulliver. Moves towards a social Europ...
Noble causes
Professor Vernon Bogdanor, in the Times, makes the case for left wing unity before the next election - that is to say, alliance between Labour and the Liberal Democrats before the election rather than coalition-building only occurring in the event of...
The snub?
While Gordon Brown meets Barack Obama in Washington, pundits have fallen over themselves to explain how Obama is snubbing Brown. As the New York Times has it, Commentators on both sides of the ocean have catalogued a number of signs that the rece...
NICE blog!! I've enjoyed perusing it. I've not been in the UK long, and I'm reading everything I can to familiarize myself with the politics, so I'm aware of what's going on, and how things work on more than just the surface level.
What's your take on Gordon Brown's idea of "Britishness" and learning what it means to be British, for people wanting to become citizens, by doing things such as volunteering in the community and such? I'm from the US, and moved here after I married my husband. I personally am FOR the whole idea of really knowing and understanding what it means "to be British" because I think it kind of forces the citizen-wanna-be to understand more about the nation they want to be a permanent part of. I probably don't understand the whole idea fully, but I'm trying to, and your blog definitely helps me with the politics! Thanks.
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