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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

All Night Entertainment for the Lords.

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. This is quite funny*. Labour Peers in the House of Lords are currently having a mass collegiate filibuster to delay the AV referendum b...
Wednesday, 12 January 2011

"Weak" Secularism.

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Sometime ago I posted an article called "Weak" Democracy. This described my idea about what is sufficient for a way of organising ...
Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Dealing with the Deficit (5) - Is the Coalition's Plan "Progressive"? Is it Fair?

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On being Progressive, distributional impact, fairness, cabbages and Kings (and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings - well...
Friday, 24 December 2010

What Christmas Means To Me

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Just as my town is to this house, just as this country is to this town, just as this world is to this land; just as the sun is to this plane...
Sunday, 19 December 2010

Dealing with the Deficit (4) - Tax is always bloody taxing.

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On Tax Avoidance, Robin Hood, Bashing the Bankers, VAT, cabbages and Kings (and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings - wel...
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Saturday, 11 December 2010

The Tution Fee Vote - How did it get this close?

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 . Well, the motion to raise University Tuition fees from about £3500 to £6000-9000 a year passed.  For once I get to actually see how accu...
Thursday, 9 December 2010

The Tuition Fees vote. - It's getting bloody close!

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It's less than 5 hours to go and it's getting bloody close. Today's the day for the Big Tuition Fee vote, the closest and most...
Monday, 29 November 2010

'Weak' Democracy - A Principle in Defence of Monarchy.

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. Considering recent discussion around the announcement of Prince William's wedding this seems as good a time as any for a good look at ...
Saturday, 20 November 2010

A View on American Politics from a British Conservative - Secondly, Midterms, President Obama, Democrats and Republicans

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. It seems incredible that only two years after Barack Obama's meteoric rise in 2008, from barely known junior senator of Illinois to P...
Saturday, 6 November 2010

A view on American politics from a British Conservative - Firstly, it's just plain confusing.

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. 3rd November 2010, and across the Atlantic the opinion polls and the pundits were almost exactly right. The Republicans took more than 6...