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  • The House of Canards (Comment is Free)

    Busy, busy, busy… but I did find the time to write a piece on Lords reform over on Comment is Free last night. I had originally written a totally different article, but in researching it I got increasingly annoyed by the same old canards against elections coming up again and again. Get with the program…

  • John McCain botches his saving throw

    The McCain camp is in full scale meltdown after making jibes at “the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd” (okay, I exaggerate slightly). This has lead to Wired running this rather imaginitive and amusing thread. Truth to tell, it is an odd target of Team McCain considering the physical resemblance of their candidate: moar funny pictures

  • The Lib Dems’ death is being predicted once again

    If you believe most of the people commenting in response to my CiF article this morning, and Bob Piper, you would think the Lib Dems were about to shuffle off this mortal coil. I seem to remember a remarkably similar bunch of people assure me of this at this point in the Parliamentary cycle every…

  • David Howarth’s Fixed Term Parliaments Bill

    I’ve been highlighting this as part of my day job but haven’t said anything about it here. Anyway, David Howarth’s Fixed Term Parliaments Bill is being debated in the Commons tomorrow and you need to do something about it. Write to your MP about it and ask them to sign EDM 1528 – Fixed Term…

  • Does religion really battle apathy?

    I posted this response to Martin Turner’s Lib Dem Voice article Apathy in the UK on the comments but I’m keen to see a response so I’m cross posting it here: What he talked about was why he was backing religion in general (Greenbelt is a Christian arts festival), because it was a bulwark against…