Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Participatory Society

How do you want to live? In many ways, all politics boil down to this. Often in life we find ourselves having to learn to live with the gap between our answer to that question and the reality of world … Continue reading

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British Conservatives: the Shame that Dare Not Speak its Name

Within the breast of every Tory MP, from One Nation Wets (the few that are left) to Thatcherite Head-Bangers, is a dirty secret. They lie in bed at night and feel rage and humiliation at not having won a Westminster … Continue reading

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Time to play the Thatcher–Kinnock trick on the Tories?

Ed Miliband is hopeless. He lisps. Words emerge through his sinuses like strangled cats. He waves his arms about and points his finger like Osama bin Laden threatening a European Caliphate. Cruel Tories refer to him as “the gift that … Continue reading

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