Category Archives: British politics

The festival of diversity took place on a day when Trevor Phillips, who seems a very sharp cookie, was warning that there is a real danger of the emergence of a ghetto-ised and segregated underclass in this country, however much … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hamish McRae has yet another article in the Independent today arguing that globalisaiton is wonderful, or at least inevitable; and that we will be fine in this country providing we compete for the jobs that require intelligence rather than cheap … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Spent a couple of days in Parliament earlier this week, much of it sitting on a couch in the corner of the Peers’ lobby. I kept thinking that this was a room from which, a hundred years ago, two fifths … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For reasons unrelated to chickens, I have been looking through Hansard. I emerge entirely committed to a constitutional reform which would give greater powers to the House of Lords. In evidence, this opening statement in a debate: Baroness Masham of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Charles Arthur has a thoughtful screed up this morning about why he’ll vote Green, though he lives in a constituency with an unshakeable Conservative majority — and the MP is the deputy speaker. It’s a nice argument, but I live … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here is a very interesting slideshow, found through Ros Taylor on the Guardian’s election blog. I have posted about it before, when I took the survey, but this is a very lucid explanation of the Axis of UKIP, as they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

in British politics today must be Ken Clarke. If he were leading the Conservatives, they’d very probably win ths election, and would certainly cripple Blair. Continue reading →

How did I find myself here? I think of myself, if I have any political home, as a sort of realistic leftish conservative. All my serious arguments for voting agaist T Blair are conservative ones, about the preservation and maintenance … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“Happen to be” is the Anglican for “is”, just as “I happen to believe” means “I would go to the stake for”. It’s a tactful way of glossing over really important things. There was a gorgeous specimen of this in … Continue reading → Continue reading →