Tag: the-left
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Matthew Turner has provided us with a handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the Decent Left, i.e. that disparate bunch of leftish bloggers who have embraced neo-conservativism. Three major new initiatives in less than a year. What is notable is that, despite their obsession with their old comrades, they are using all their old techniques of setting…
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This is possibly the most offensive thing Ken Livingstone has said in years, yet who wants to bet that the Standards Board afficionados don’t make a complaint about it? “In the same way that Trafalgar Square has had an interesting history, not always a peaceful one, there’s a very clear parallel. “We’ve had some interesting…
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I’ve occasionally wondered if John Harris is in fact Johann Hari in a strawberry blonde wig – the two names are virtually identical. Now, it seems, he has taken to quoting from his own articles – Johann wrote an almost identical piece, albeit with more brevity, a few months ago. All this tut-tutting though, to…
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One of the fun things about reading the early edition of the Guardian online, is that when you click on “comment” you get a list of headlines, but with no indication of who wrote what. So you can play a guessing game. Anyone care to guess, for instance, who wrote an article with this title,…
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Do you think Galloway will put his grandmother up on eBay soon? How much do you want for a barrel of oil, by the way? 🙂 UPDATE: I should point out that the real humour value in this is that it is a “Cuba” top.