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Kennedy's Run | December 14th 2009 by Pete
Money is of course the answer. That’s especially the case if your kindly donating to the British Conservative party, who have a 90% chance of winning general election (to be held by June 2010 at the latest). This is reported by the good people read more
When I Hear Talk of 'Human Rights' I Reach for my Gun
Ana the Imp | December 9th 2009 by AnatheImp
Now, where did I come across a sentiment like that, or something to that effect? Was it, perhaps, to do with culture? :-)) So, yes, let’s talk of human rights and human wrongs; let’s talk about the progress of absurdity. In 1998 our super Labou read more
Red Toryism
Ana the Imp | December 7th 2009 by AnatheImp
The Conservative Party does not do ideology, at least it shouldn’t, an entirely personal view, I confess. But David Cameron wants to put an intellectual gloss on post-Thatcher Toryism, to give it coherence, a basis and a sense of direction. So, read more
Remember
A Political Glimpse from Ireland | December 6th 2009 by Crian Padayachee
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video from Fox Sports featuring the NFL Sunday team of commentators doing their broadcast from a hangar at Bagram AB in Afghanistan. The original link to the video no longer works, but you can see part of it here. O read more
Jim on Copenhagen
Greenman's Occasional Organ | December 2nd 2009
The Copenhagen Climate Summit and associated demos like this Saturday's The Wave in London loom.My fellow left wing Green blogger Jim Jepps had a good article that made the centre page spread of the Morning Star this week.Jim on the media coverage so read more
Exposing the National Health Service
Ana the Imp | December 2nd 2009 by AnatheImp
I mentioned in a contribution I made to a discussion on a blog about the British National Health Service, the NHS, that I would like to say a word or two more about this great sacred cow of our national life once I had gathered my thoughts. Well, thy read more
British Politics and the BNP Explained (For Foreigners)
The British Nationalist | December 1st 2009
Political motivation vs. political reality, a study of British politics. The quotation of Oscar Wilde, “the British and Americans are two people separated by a common language.“ Is in the forefront of my thoughts as I write this, wha read more
Boom
Ana the Imp | November 29th 2009 by AnatheImp
Now here’s an interesting little tale, one that took me by surprise because it concerns Nick Clegg, arguably the most boring man in British politics; nice, yes, but boring. Nice and boring, the very qualities that make him an admirable leader of read more
A 'YouGov' poll with some interesting clues
Boatang and Demetriou | November 28th 2009 by Kevin Boatang and John Demetriou
Yet another poll has been published on the forthcoming fortunes of the main political parties, this time a YouGov poll for the Daily Mailygraph.You will be flabbergasted to learn that the Tories are doing quite well, and...the Tories intend to do wel read more
Meeting in London on Inequality
Greenman's Occasional Organ | November 26th 2009
The event detailed below, scheduled for Wednesday 2nd December, is hosted by Hackney Green Party and should be quite interesting for anyone within travelling distance sympathetic to left green ideas. INEQUALITY IN THE UK - Effects and solutions Wedne read more
Dancing with the Devil
Ana the Imp | November 24th 2009 by AnatheImp
There is a rather unsettling piece in the November issue of Standpoint by Nick Cohen on the fate of Derek Pasquill, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) mole who exposed that lamentable branch of government’s (whose government, I wonder?) cont read more
Empty Apologies
Ana the Imp | November 23rd 2009 by AnatheImp
I’ve blogged in the past about the fashion, both fatuous and vain, for contemporary politicians to apologise for the tragedies and mistakes of the past; over things that happened well before they were born or over which they had no control (The Jok read more
Candyfloss and Sunshine
Ana the Imp | November 23rd 2009 by AnatheImp
Of all the criticisms of the recent Queen’s Speech the most obvious appears to have been missed: the complete failure of imagination. In Gordon Brown’s position I would have been so much more creative. I would have promised, say, candyfloss and read more
The British Zeitgeist: Conservative Anarchism
Greenman's Occasional Organ | November 21st 2009
There has been a lot of talk recently of the ideology of the Tory Party leadership in Britain around David Cameron and how they are influenced by the "Red Toryism" of Philip Blond. With Cameron increasingly presented by the MSM as Prime Minister in read more
One Million Climate Jobs Pamphlet Now Available
Greenman's Occasional Organ | November 17th 2009
The pamphlet on One Million Climate Jobs Now can now be downloaded from the PCS website at: http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/resources/green_workplaces/green_campaigns/one-million-climate-jobs-now.cfmEarlier this year, the Campaign against Climate Change (Ca read more
Poll : 59 Percent Of Australians Want a Republic
Greenman's Occasional Organ | November 6th 2009
Great news for British, Canadian and Australian Republicans from this press release from Republic:BRITISH REPUBLICANS BUOYED AS POLL FINDS 59% OF AUSTRALIANS WOULD DITCH MONARCHY Republic has welcomed a new poll by the Australian Republican Movemen read more
Don't Scab On The Post
Greenman's Occasional Organ | November 3rd 2009
The following is the text of a leaflet being distributed by Notts IWW members at local Job Centres.Don’t apply for Royal Mail jobsSupport the Posties instead!Royal Mail workers are striking against pay and job cuts, and bigger and bigger workloads. read more
Toxic Gags
Ana the Imp | November 3rd 2009 by AnatheImp
Had you ever heard of ‘super injunctions’? I confess I had not until I heard Ian Hislop talk about them on Have I Got News for You. In essence this is a gagging order that even prevents a newspaper saying that it has been gagged or making any k read more
Climate Change Public Forum
Greenman's Occasional Organ | October 30th 2009
CLIMATE EMERGENCY COPENHAGEN London Public ForumSaturday 7th November 12-6pm South Camden Community School, Charrington Street NW1 1RG(nearest tube Kings Cross) Open to everyone and free to attend, hosted by the Campaign against Climate Change the read more
Birmingham Greens Demonstrate Left Unity In Action
Greenman's Occasional Organ | October 27th 2009
The Green Party in Birmingham has voted to stand aside for Salma Yaqoob in the coming Parliamentary elections, the Steering Group of Green Left has agreed the release of the following statement:Green Left welcomes the decision of Birmingham Green Par read more
Let them eat DDG
A Political Glimpse from Ireland | October 26th 2009 by Crian Padayachee
The Times of London reports that next year the UK will become a net importer of wheat. How is this possible in a time when crop yields are at the highest in human history? Simple: they’re turning it into ethanol. This makes farmers very, ver read more
CPBF Events This Week
Greenman's Occasional Organ | October 26th 2009
Media for all? The challenge of convergenceSaturday 31 OctoberSchool of Pharmacy, 29 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX, from 10.00am – 5.00pm. (nearest tube Russell Square)A major international conference on the future of media organised by the Cam read more
3 million people to spite the Tories!
A Political Glimpse from Ireland | October 24th 2009 by Crian Padayachee
The UK Telegraph has an article quoting a former speechwriter for Tony Blair. The speechwriter, Andrew Nether, says that the huge rise in immigration was a result of two objectives: a desired increase in workers, and also to make Britain more multic read more
The Next Step: Moving on from Question Time
Hadleigh Roberts | October 24th 2009 by Hadleigh Roberts
I said the Internets would be ablaze with analysis and accusations over Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time. It didn’t take Nostradamus to know that prediction would come true. Hopefully this post will be the last I need to say on the matt read more
Let's keep Griffin and the BNP where we can watch them
Acid Rabbi | October 23rd 2009 by JC
Well, well, well. Didn't Nick Griffin do well on Question Time last night? Of course, when I say "do well," I mean he did well for us rather than for him and his disgraceful little band of bigots - he revealed himself as the poisonous idiot that he i read more
Let's keep Griffin and the BNP where we can watch them
Acid Rabbi | October 23rd 2009 by JC
Well, well, well. Didn't Nick Griffin do well on Question Time last night? Of course, when I say "do well," I mean he did well for us rather than for him and his disgraceful little band of bigots - he revealed himself as the poisonous idiot that he i read more
The Entirely Predictable Rise -and Fall? - of The British Far Ri…
Greenman's Occasional Organ | October 23rd 2009
Never have so many column inches and so much bandwidth been expended on a soundbite level chat show. I'm talking about, of course, this week's media coverage of the appearance of the leader of Britain's largest Far Right Party on BBC's Question Time read more
Things you can do/some can’t be done
The United States of Jamerica | October 22nd 2009 by Jamelle Bouie
(cross-posted from the League of Ordinary Gentlemen) In his column today, David Brooks makes an error which I think is pretty common of conservative commentators who look to Great Britain for political inspiration. But first, Brooks: The Conservati read more
Statement on Nick Griffin on Question Time
Hadleigh Roberts | October 22nd 2009 by Hadleigh Roberts
The episode of Question Time which featured the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, has just aired. Once again, Twitter came into full force. According to @tweetminster there were up to 53.5K tweets with 12.49 tweets per second at close of #bbcqt. Anal read more
Teachers' Union Backs December Climate Demos
Greenman's Occasional Organ | October 19th 2009
In an encouraging development the NEC of the NUT have declared their support for the demonstrations in London and Copenhagen in December designed to put pressure on world leaders to come up with a meaningful deal at the Copenhagen conference:This mot read more
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