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Month: January 2008

  • Why we should be wary of bringing back the sus laws (photographic edition)

    It’s okay! The police aren’t racist any more! Dave says so! Erm… (Photo credit: Evening Standard.) Or, to put it another way: “We didn’t ask him to leave because whether we like it or not we live in a democracy.” More rantiness.

  • … 25 years later

    Okay, I admit it, I’m a geek. Last night, I received a book from Amazon which I was first promised back in 1983. Somewhere in my boxes at my parents’ house is a battered old copy of the very first Citadel Compendium. According to this, one of the products which Citadel Miniatures/Games Workshop was planning…

  • Derek Conway: shades of Gray?

    Pity those poor Conservatives who seem to be suffering from family breakdown at the moment. I can’t help but think that James Gray, Andrew Pelling and now Nigel Waterson would not be facing the problems they’ve been having if only the government offered all married couples a £20 a week tax bribe. But I digress.…

  • Secret plot by Tory donor to rewrite UK constitution by the backdoor

    The UK, famously, does not have a codified constitution. We have the beginnings of what is vaguely termed a “supreme court” but it explicitly does not have a constitutional role. How, therefore, does Stuart Wheeler intend to argue the case for his proposal to judicially review the government’s decision not to progress with a referendum…

  • Derek Conway and the passions of Iain Dale

    A few points… Roger Gale describes the Conway incident as a “witch hunt“. One has to wonder why the Standards and Privileges Committee would do such a thing if that were the case, since if Gale is to believed surely all MPs would be liable for the same treatment. Surely mutual interest would prevent such…