Month: March 2007
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If you can ignore the fact that the Conservative policy is for the House of Lords to be elected using the first past the post system, which is itself a closed list system, you could be forgiven for thinking they had quite a principled take in the Lords reform debate a few weeks ago. To…
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Quote of the week must go to Charlie Falconer: “People not the press must be the priority. There is a right to know, not a right to tell.” You only need to think about this for a couple of seconds to realise how dumb it is. After all, freedom of speech IS a right, and…
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Ignore me. I’m talking shite. More quality journalism from the BBC (cf From fact to headline: how the media distorts news): Headline: Brown ‘may not face leader vote’ Okay, so this presumably means that a) the other potential candidates are unlikely to stand or b) that if he is the only candidate he will be…
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A point that I forgot to mention in my post about the Tories and the environment yesterday. Boris Johnson is quoted as saying: I associate road humps with the Liberal Democrats. I blame the Lib Dems for speed humps, which necessitate the need for 4x4s. It is an interesting causal link. The flaw in this…
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Curious dead horse flogging from Lynne Featherstone yesterday, which I’m rebutting here in a vain attempt to stop yet another conspiracy theory gaining ground: But there is one point that has struck me as valid – why do we keep on being told Lord Levy’s middle name? It’s Abraham – and so telling us his…