Month: June 2007
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Iain Dale was clearly deliberately trying to cause a stink today with his post about abortions. The first question one must put to him is, what does it have to do with the country? How is it in any way our business to label these women as shameful? I would have thought that as a…
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There must be loads of Local Income Tax supporters reading Lib Dem blogs, so perhaps they can answer this question. Given that so few of the super rich pay income tax, how will introducing a local version, as Vince Cable has suggested today, make the blindest bit of difference to them? Answers below please.
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The good thing about this article is that I can now claim this blog was inspired by a newspaper columnist, which seems so much less geeky than the alternative.
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Iain Dale declared yesterday that “we are all progressive Conservatives now.” Er, no you ain’t: On every statement apart from one, 83 per cent or more of Labour MPs agree (the exception being whether Britain is a united country, where there is a 59 to 41 per cent split). By contrast, on several key questions…
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Funny thing that Doctor Who Confidential. It is supposed to give you the inside gen of that particular week’s Doctor Who. This week, Derek Jacobi was the main guest star. Without wanting to give anything away, you would have thought they would have at least mentioned that this is his second appearance in Doctor Who,…