May 6th 2010, and all that

You’d think I could possibly, in a blog which mainly focusses on broad political issues, have found some time to pass comment on the 2010 UK general election campaign. Well, you’d be wrong. Actually, the vast amount of polling data and journalistic analysis from the broadsheets took up most of my frivolous political time. Granted [...]

10 for 2010

Well, Iain Dale did one, so have other Tory bloggers. The Guardian had some of its columnists do a nice video on the topic. I thought I’d follow suit and other some speculative and pointless predictions for the year ahead in the political world: 1) The 2010 UK general election will be held in May [...]

Of Minarets and Men

I wasn’t going to wade into this whole Swiss ban on minarets thing. Any issue where one conflates race, religion, democracy, and (worst of all) referenda is going to be trouble. But then a Bulgarian mate invited me to a Facebook group about it  (and as we all know Facebook groups are the epitome of social [...]

Immigrants…

Received earlier today a postal survey from my MP on immigration and the bill currently going through parliament. I may be overly cynical but I detect that is is slightly more than a mere coincidence. The local party evidently kaking themselves about the “BNP backlash” etc. which they will shortly be served. I said it [...]

Negative Campaigning

With local elections on the immediate horizon, one particular campaign has come up on my radar. This would be the Labour-backed campaign to persuade voters not to vote for the British National Party. Now even I am not right-wing enough to support the BNP, or to feel sorry for them, but something about this type [...]

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