There is a lot wrong with Labour but in the current voting system Labour is really all we’ve got – if we are at all progressive. Labour has to decide how to get rid of the Tories and its brand of disaster capitalism. This would be my approach… They could start by suggesting that a… Read more
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World beating – at the bottom…
Caroline Lucas tells it as ever, as it is. It really is monumentally disastrous that government is failing to provide – or even subsidise home insulation. This is the most basic starting point for going green. If there is no home insulation then everything – green or otherwise – is actually waste….. Read more
I wonder, is this good Labour advice from Alastair Campbell?
Who seems to be ‘disguised’ in glasses and flat cap. Can we go further than “Aye, lad?” I’m fairly sure it is him (just over a minute):… Read more
Winner takes it all….
Is the supposedly desirable characteristic the UK’s First Past the Post electoral system. But is it actually desirable? The Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, has apparently written in various Sunday newspapers, in the light of the very sad murder of a second MP in recent times, about the need to end hatred… Read more
Frost’s views?
People may not be aware that Lord Frost, our appalling Brexit Minister, (sorry, Minister for EU relations) used to be in charge of the Scotch Whisky Association – and this is what he said at the time: We must wonder when his damascene conversion to Brexit happened? Or does he just absorb information like a… Read more
Howard League for Penal Reform has excellent ideas
The outgoing Chairwoman of the Howard League for Penal Reform, the appropriately named, Frances Crook, has written an excellent summary of what she is asking of Dominic Raab, the recently arrived Justice Secretary: The Howard League has developed an outline plan and we will build on the ideas in a series of blog postings over… Read more
Weekend humour
As it is Saturday, here are a couple of Brexit cartoons which appealed. The first is from the Bangkok Post where, after Brexit, the British Lion has transformed itself into a sweet pussycat. I do hope ‘our friends’ (as Johnson always says) in the European Research Group are impressed… And then there is this oh… Read more
The purpose of the state
It seems to me that this is more and more of a problem as our current government appears to be of the opinion that in fact the state has little, or even, no purpose. In spite of the fact that they are in charge of it. Clearly the Johnson government like being in charge because… Read more
Thinking about status
This is a provocatively good article on ‘status’ on the Unherd website: Status is extremely important to wellbeing, so much so that it can have a profound effect on our health. People more successful in their careers tend to live longer, even taking into account confounders like smoking. The demoralising feeling of lower social status… Read more
Brexit going too well..
..in Northern Ireland. A couple of minutes of explanation: Of course, we couldn’t possibly have a part of the UK avoiding the Tory dystopian chaos – and where practicality might, for once, trump ideology – could we? As the Byline Times points out: Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland, there is an interesting control experiment occurring as… Read more