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Are these not the most pathetic bunch of amateur fascists you have ever seen?
We may seem cold, or
We may even be
The most depressing people you’ve ever kno...
This is a quick post from Manchester. I'm just back from a meal out (a superb Turkish restaurant called the “Topkati Palace” in Deansgate) with fellow London delegat...
I’ve often wondered, what with the Bullingdon stuff and the bizarre behaviour, if Boris occasionally partakes of the occasional drink. The latest manifestation...
Last week we had our Liverpool Wavertree Constituency Labour Party General Committee (or Wavertree GC for short) and I dont usually blog about these monthly meetings b...
I've sampled all the above in the past seven days but did not expect to return to a re-nationalised railway line in Yorkshire. The fiasco over the Nation...
As the granddaughter and greatgranddaughter of Corporation gardeners (in Coventry) as well as the great niece of a third Coventry council gardener plus also a Wolverha...
We had a really interesting speaker at last month's business breakfast at Gardners Systems on Wavertree Technology Park - no less a person than Bernard Hogan-Howe the ...
A few more things from the Routermater trainwreck to add to the pile:
There’s now a requirement to cover up the gap at the back. This is known to the sane ma...
I spent Father's Day weekend in Cornwall visting my father and other members of my family who had also converged there. The weather was glorious and we had a wonder...
For the second time this week we must highlight the shameful indiscipline and lack of respect for the democratic process of the Liberal anti Democrat
Yes it is Last o...
I went to a celebration of the 3 Sirolli projects in Liverpool on June 18th in Liverpool Town Hall. The Sirolli Institute was set up by Dr Ernesto Sirolli to facilit...
So, has one of my political heroes been reading my blog? I suspect not. But he – Ken Livingstone – has made a very convincing argument about the railways ...
I was delighted to have been elected as the new Chair of the City and North District Committee on June 17th. Having been the Deputy Chair of the Area Committee in 2007...
I went to a great event at the Liverpool Arena a couple of weeks ago, organised by the Merseyside Police (the SIGMA team in the main part I think) and faith groups, wo...
TO A RECEPTION this evening at the Royal College of Art in Piccadilly, courtesy of hosts, NedRailways.
Modern art really isn’t my bag (despite my unsuccessful a...
Nadine Rosa-Rosso of Belgium describes herself as an “independent communist activist”.
Presumably one reason she is independent is that her foray in Belgian electoral...
Looks like Miliband has matured
Have you noted the wide-ranging and free-flowing David Miliband interview by Jessica Asato and Mark Day on Progress Online?
Is it the...
Labour activist has "shops" George Osborne to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner
The whole notion of a ‘political class’ really irritates me. Journalists and politicians use it all the time as catch-all phrase to describe anyone who ha...
My post below on the likelihood of justice for Neda Agha Soltani featured a quote from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "The massive propaganda of the foreign media, as well as o...
I am going to be unable to update the site for about ten days or so.
See ya.
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Brett Lee's five wicket haul at New Road, coming immediately after getting bawled out by his skipper for fraterizing with the home fans, sets Australia something of a ...
John Vidal writes absurdly in the Guardian:
“Wags in Cumbria are now calling the stretch between Millom and St Bees the Côte d’Atom – the greatest ...
I normally avoid BBC’s Question Time, but I may make an exception tonight: Jarvis Cocker is on the panel. I wonder if he will get a question about Michael Jacks...
I don’t want to be prematurely optimistic, but it looks as though Thanet Council have finally realised what an enormous and unnecessary “own goal” the closure of the ...
The collapse of the National Express franchise for the East Coast rail service may well foreshadow the redrawing of the entire privatised rail franchise system. ...
Over the last few weeks time has not been kind. I'm in the midst of a handover (no Ian "handover", not "hangover") and trying to market my services for a future assig...
From www.project-syndicate.org via The Kosovo Times July 02, 2009 Breaking the Climate Deadlock By Tony Blair "LONDON – On July 9, the leaders of the world’s largest ..."
Here’s the video
When Kitty Ussher quit a few weeks back, she said that it was in order to spend more time with her family. Here’s what the BBC reported a...
Local reader J. Hirst has sent me an Open Letter to Laura Sandys. The pictures are of two of the local improvements the Labour government has provided in South Thanet....
Yesterday was the first official day a cut in VAT (TVA) came into effect.
Having criticised Gordon Brown not so long ago over his handling of the British economy, Pre...
As someone for whom the role of Arab/Muslim Americans and women in the US military is a source of my pride in my country, I was pleased to see this segment on Stephen ...
Any Londoner can feel the cold hand of fear from just three words: “Hanger Lane Gyratory“.
Here the A40 undercuts the North Circular Road, shortly before...
520 Westminster City Council staff have been told that they are ‘vulnerable’ to redundancy, according to a letter sent to all Council staff by Council Chie...
Labour’s Westminster Councillors have put down a motion for the next Council meeting on 15th July calling on the Council to confirm that it will require 50% on-s...
OK, so I suppose this is just the sort of thing we should expect as standard from all politicians, but it’s nice to see the man with the nuclear button pushing t...
I read this Brad DeLong post about the US unemployment numbers, and the Obama administrations incorrect forecast of the future path of said numbers with a sense of fa...
The decision to abandon plans to privatise the Royal Mail makes a good deal of sense to me. I am convinced that privatisation would have resulted in a lowering of the...
Paul has an excellent post up arguing in favour of ‘common sense economics’.
As he says:
" I’ve <a href="http://www.bickerstafferecord.org.uk/?p=371">also written</..."
So who is alleged to have been a naughty boy, none other than smartypants George Osborne who may have to do some explaining!
BBC NEWS: “Shadow chancellor George ...
The Daily Mail has published a nonsense article about former Speaker Martin and his so-called secret investiture. Members of the House of Lords do not attend an inves...
The news has broken within the last few minutes that a Labour supporter has reported George Osborne to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner for the way he has des...
This is from Iain Dale’s blog:
"Why I Won’t Appear on Press TV Again
Iain Dale 11:59 PM
Press TV is a relatively new station. They’ve just got onto..."
Shadow chancellor George Osborne is being investigated by the sleaze watchdog over his expenses, says Sky News.
The complaint to the Parliamentary Standards Commissi...
At 11.30am on 27 December 2008, without warning, Israeli forces began a devastating bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip codenamed Operation “Cast Lead”. Its stated aim...
Lengthy article on John McCain's 2008 running mate says she is utterly incapable of assuming high office Sarah Palin reckons she could beat Barack Obama … in a runnin...
This is a guest post by Jonathan Hoffman
I complete surveys every so often for YouGov Stone. I am on their ‘influential people’ panel “of over 3,000 opinion leaders d...
The appalling homophobic Section 377, which was an oppressive 148 year old hangover from British colonialism, has been overturned in India.
Great day for justice, ci...
Raising the Bar for Climate Change legislation
With Falkirk campaigners Norman Philp, Corrie Cuthbertson, David Allinson
Falkirk East MSP Cathy Peattie said that s...
Raising the Bar for Climate Change legislation
With Falkirk campaigners Norman Philp, Corrie Cuthbertson, David Allinson
Falkirk East MSP Cathy Peattie said that s...
WE OBVIOUSLY do not know what yardstick Jack Straw uses when deciding whether or not prisoners should be released on medical grounds, but the contrast between his ruli...
An interesting interview with Keith Skeoch by Hugh at Responsible Investor. A snippet: "“I think Paul Myners has done a pretty good job in creating polemic. The interim ..."
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If you can visualise the year as a see-saw, today we are perfectly poised in happy equilibrium. July the second is the median point, a halfway marker in the annual pr...
Has Obama turned on Israel? The question is put by Alan Dershowitz and his answer is a conditional no. Were there to be a softening by the administration on the questi...
We've added more photos and names to our database of victims of the unrest. Please keep sending us your submissions Today we are publishing an update to our list of I...
I'm not in the habit of beating up Labour, because I'm still convinced that it is the most important progressive force in politics, and my own politics are more labour...
Prison is not working. 84,000 are now in prison. We spent £22.7 billion on criminal justice in England and Wales last year. Those we punish are largely the poor and di...
"A rejection of inequality - both absolute, relative and of opportunity - is absolutely core to who we are. But we will be more successful - not just electorally but i...
I have been reading a story in the Shrewsbury Chronicle about the Rock and fountain pub in Shrewsbury which the police want the Licensing committee to review the premi...
Councillor David Mellen, Portfolio Holder for Children’s Services, responds to news that the Conservatives have refused to guarantee funding for the national Sur...
“Understanding” is a weasel word, isn’t it.
What would you think if I were to say:
“I don’t hate black people but I understand why some...
I’ve recently written quite a lot about the need to develop a new economic policy narrative, and soon.
I’ve also written about how the now dominant narra...
Is the decision to overrule the parole board regarding the release of Ronnie Biggs another foot-in-mouth story similar but obviously on a smaller scale to Woolas’...
...by Seumas Milne, one of the few journalists currently working that I have any time for. His point regarding Milburn's links to Bridgepoint Capital are interesting,...
Back to an issue I've covered in some earlier posts - Obama's stance towards Iran after the election. I draw your attention to three separate pieces with a similar mes...
Did anyone else spot this at the corner by the esteemed New Era dry cleaners? How was the massage couch stolen in the first place? Aren't they rather large object...
I don’t hold the author of the Guy Fawkes blog in any great regard (Nor do I think he’s that big a deal). That said, I did notice this morning that my oc...
Downpour or don trunks? Wherever you are in Britain, let us know whether you're steaming, soaked or both It's a very mixed bag out there for Britain weather-wise toda...
In the aftermath of his Cairo speech, the text of what Obama said has been much scrutinized in order to assess its accuracy, its balance or lack of it, its aptness to ...
Although our e-petition motion (see below) was successful at council on Monday, the council are still refusing to admit they were wrong not to take advantage of the go...
Bromley councillors have supported the Penge & Cator councillors' proposal for e-petitions on the council web site. I think we all agree that councils have to improv...
I have just now submitted my formal objection to Tileman House, which you can read here. I've reattached my original objection to it, as the applications are so simil...
We asked about the continued closure of the Health Suite (sauna and steam rooms) at Beckenham Spa at council on Monday.
The new and improved Health suite at Becke...
I can see their point, but when a Speaker is made a Peer it is usually made as the result of a recommendation from the House of Commons following a vote. Perhaps the t...
Karl Malden has died at the age of 97. Credits from a long movie career included A Streetcar Named Desire, I Confess, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks. There are n...
This is a guest post by Brian Miller
What is “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?”
It is a law passed in 1993 by the US Congress and signed into law by President Bill...
Local residents have the chance to ask me a question as the leader of the council at the full council meeting on Wednesday 8 July at 6pm. More details and a meeting a...
Today, the Guardian published a letter I wrote last week in response to a Comment piece on the Labour Party by Simon Jenkins in which among other things Jenkins descri...
Today, the Guardian published a letter I wrote last week in response to a Comment piece on the Labour Party by Simon Jenkins in which among other things Jenkins descri...
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