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  • Have we reached peak flag?

    There are some days when I couldn’t feel more alienated from UK politics, and today is one of them. While we are still struggling to comprehend why the people of Rochester and Strood just re-elected an MP who is a virtual caricature of every worst Westminster character trait imaginable in what they seem to think…

    Have we reached peak flag?

  • Remind me how the gagging law will prevent a UK “Koch Brothers” again?

    One of the common arguments by the supporters of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill is that it will prevent the UK equivalent of the Koch Brothers from being able to buy the political process for their own nefarious ends. So it is with good timing that Paul Sykes has…

  • Michael Brown donation: we got lucky

    So the Lib Dems won’t be handing back the £2.4m donation from 5th Avenue Partners Ltd after all. Yay. I do hope however (against all the evidence?) that this won’t now result in large numbers of Lib Dems crowing about how the party’s actions have been vindicated and that the was never any question that…

  • 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…

  • How to make UKIP look good…

    Well done Buster Mottram for handing Nigel Farage a bit of a propaganda coup: UKIP says it has “unanimously rejected” an offer from the British National Party for an electoral pact at next year’s European elections. It says ex-tennis star Buster Mottram, a UKIP member who claimed to represent the BNP, made the “astonishing offer”…