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Max Mosley’s trial has the media agog. The Times was not alone, yesterday, in printing those quotes from the ongoing case which it found most, umm, in the public interest (what Mosley said “on the pain of being spanked until … Continue reading
Nemesis
I wasn’t hugely interested in the fuss over the re-selection of sitting Tory MEPs when it reared its head a few months ago, if I’m honest. I was a tacit supporter of Tim Montgomerie’s campaign for more openness over disclosure … Continue reading
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An outbreak of decency on the Left
Labour’s campaign at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election has rightly been attacked for its blatantly racist nature, as well as it’s hideous (and hideously ineffective) attempts to write-off the Conservative candidate, Edward Timpson, as a “toff”. The Labour tactics have been … Continue reading
Vote Blue, Go Crewe (and Nantwich)
Perhaps it’s just the heady after-effects of having played an infinitesimally small part in the Victory Of The Boris last week: but what a difference winning makes to the mindset of the party foot soldier (this one, anyway)! So while standing in … Continue reading
Retropolitics
In the last couple of weeks there were some disappointing signals about the party’s narrational direction. The first sign was an anti-sign: the near silence over the ongoing “issues” surrounding the Speaker, whose laughable suggestion it is that the best … Continue reading