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Help Wanted: Platonic Guardians Enquire Within

May 16, 2010 – 4:38 pm

‘Why,’ asked a Labour friend of mine this week, ‘is Britain still run by people from Oxford and Cambridge? When is it going to stop?’ Her despair was as much about her own party as mine, as well as pretty much every other political grouping in the United Kingdom. David Cameron, check. Nick Clegg, check. Tony [...]

By skepticlawyer | Posted in Britain, Education, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments (16)

The Fat Lady is warming up her vocal chords

May 3, 2010 – 7:42 pm

Well, it’s almost done: Britain goes to the polls this Thursday, the final of the three debates took place last Thursday, and we’re still looking down the barrel at a hung parliament. That said, a few things have started to come clear: Tory support has stiffened while the Labour vote is collapsing in favour of [...]

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There is honour among thieves

April 30, 2010 – 8:14 am

To their very great credit, in tonight’s third and final debate, neither Nick Clegg nor David Cameron tried to make political mileage out of Gordon Brown’s dreadful ‘bigoted woman’ gaffe, a gaffe now circling the globe and quite possibly entering permanent geostationary orbit, so widely reported has it been. I have difficulty imagining any Australian political [...]

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Whigs v Tories

April 25, 2010 – 3:36 pm

Labour may as well not have fronted. If the UK electoral system was fair, this election would be a fight between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Even with its current unfairness, it may still be a fight between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. I wrote that after watching the second Prime Ministerial Debate on [...]

By skepticlawyer | Posted in England, Northern Ireland, Politics, Wales, scotland | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (10)

New words in Scottish slang

April 24, 2010 – 2:57 am

In an interesting glimpse into the backroom construction efforts that go into these televised debates, it seems Labour have made scriptwriter Charlie Skelton an offer he COULD refuse in a last ditch attempt to boost Gordon Brown’s performance in the third and final debate next week. A funny thing happened to me yesterday. I was [...]

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The First Election Debate – Review

April 16, 2010 – 7:15 am

High Office isn’t as high as it used to be OR a message of fear, a message of hope and a message of exasperation. Usually if an hour and a half of television is going to be this tedious I can reasonably expect to see a little white ball being chased across a field by [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Posted in England | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (17)