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  • Balls, dirty tricks and candidate selection

    The revelations in the Sunday Times this weekend about Ed Balls being the secret puppetmaster behind “smeargate” seem a little thin to me, but they do remind me of an incident a few years ago. Long time readers may recall my ill-fated campaign to get Ed Balls a sex change operation so that he could…

  • Jury Team – the verdict

    As I mentioned yesterday, I spent this morning at the launch of Jury Team. You can read my livetweeting of the event here. There are a few points I’d like to emphasise: Firstly, it is now clear that Jury Team is not another Your Party. It’s strength is the simplicity of the concept. In essence,…

  • Girlguides fail their policymaking badge

    I hope Jane Merrick doesn’t feel that by quoting two of her articles in half an hour I am actually stalking her. But the Independent reports a new paper published by Girlguiding UK, the Fawcett Society and the BYC today about how our political system is failing young women: More than a quarter of girls…

  • Tory candidates put on watch

    This is probably little more than pre-election nerves, but Michael Crick has been having fun with it: The Conservative Party high command is so worried about some of David Cameron’s Parliamentary candidates that they’ve started holding meetings every two weeks to monitor what they call a “watch-list” of those “have the potential to embarrass the…

  • Is UK politics institutionally racist?

    Trevor Phillips thinks it is: The public in this country would, he believes, embrace a black leader but the system would prevent it happening. “Here, the problem is not the electorate, the problem is the machine.” It was no coincidence that there were only 15 ethnic-minority MPs, he said. “The parties and the unions and…