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Please stop calling George Osborne 'Gideon'
The Chancellor’s terrible parking gives me a chance to say something I’ve been meaning to get off my chest for a while. I get so irritated with those on the Left who insist on calling George Osborne by...
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Schrödinger’s Scotland
Today the people of Scotland voted on whether to become an independent country. The polls closed about an hour ago. Don’t let the silence of this blog on the issue fool you into thinking I was not...
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Debunking the myth that MPs are lazy and selfish
On the Spectator blog, Isabel Hardman does a fantastic job in exposing a particular internet meme as a straightforward lie. You probably know the message in question. It’s the one that has two...
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Scotland has an opportunity to create a model defamation law
Edinburgh Castle The Scottish Law Commission has said it will include a review of the defamation law in its ninth programme of reform. That’s fantastic news for those of us in the Libel Reform...
View ArticleCan Labour give the country what it wants?
Tony Blair gave a speech today, warning the post-defeat Labour Party of a lurch to the left. Meanwhile, the most left wing of the four Labour Party leadership candidates, Jeremy Corbyn, is apparently...
View ArticleCould Corbynism compromise with Blairism?
The thing that irritates me about the Labour Leadership campaign is the Manichean approach adopted by everyone. We hear talk of schisms and splits and the “soul of the party” as if Corbyn is presenting...
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Coalition
Welcome to our new Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his deputy, Nick Clegg. The above image was taken in M&S a couple of weeks ago. Then this morning, I read the Alain de Botton thinks we need...
View ArticleLegalising abortion in Northern Ireland is vote-neutral for the Westminster...
Last week, U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump provoked outrage when he said that women should be punished for having an abortion. Unusually for the self-styled maverick, he walked back the...
View ArticleAre Early Day Motions Pointless?
At Westminster, an Early Day Motion is a motion tabled by an MP, calling for a debate on a particular topic. The motions rarely get debated, but they draw other MPs’ attention to particular issues....
View ArticleIt’s fine to call an MP a Nazi. But it’s not OK to threaten them
Well okay, it’s not fine. It is almost certainly not true, it is very rude, it coarsens our political discourse, it widens divisions, and I really really wish people wouldn’t do it. But when pro-Brexit...
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