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Month: September 2009

  • Quality of Life (1) – Introduction

    I’ve got out of the habit of blogging my responses to the Lib Dem policy consultation papers of late but the Quality of Life one caught my eye and I thought I’d have a stab at it. My overall response is that, while I applaud the party for wanting to tackle this issue and personally…

  • Caron, Charlotte and Costigan are all right about the ISA

    I’ve been impressed by the quality of Lib Dem blog posts about the Independent Safeguarding Authority over the past few days. Caron Lindsay, Charlotte Gore and Costigan Quist all make excellent points, albeit from different perspectives. The line in Caron’s post which I thought was most worth highlighting was this one about the Soham case:…

  • On sausages, innuendo and electioneering

    Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is a fascinating character. He’s clearly a very able marketing man, being the driving force behind Kettle Chips, Loyd Grossman’s sauces and, of course, Black Farmer sausages. The latter is a fascinating case study. A black man who bemoans people playing the “race card” yet who has carefully crafted a brand out of…

  • Tory Dog Whistle Politics is Back! (did it ever really go away?)

    I’ve been travelling back from my short break in North Yorkshire today but I have a headache. Tories have been blowing into dog whistles all day and the tinny noise has been reverberating from as far away as Whitby. For years now, this blog has been reminding readers that the problem with Cameron is not…