liberal democrats

Global Warming and British Pensioners.

February 7, 2012
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Now that global warming has covered the whole of Europe in a thick blanket of snow, will the Prime minister finally accept that the thousands of pensioners who moved to Europe over the past two decades do NOT live in a ‘hot’ country? As recently as last December, we had the Daily Mail trotting out [...]

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Going to Work on a Clegg.

April 22, 2011
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The knives are out for Nick Clegg, or perhaps it is the knaves. He is a ‘traitor’, a ‘Judas’, a ‘man with no morals or integrity’. Many of these biblical appellations come from his own party members. The anger is palpable. A total of 51 Liberal-Democrat councillors have now resigned having decided that that a [...]

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Are All Interns Mugs?

April 7, 2011
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How quickly a word can become a term of abuse! It seems only yesterday that an ‘Internship’ conjured up a picture of a medical student gaining valuable experience in a busy hospital ward. Today it is a term of unmitigated venom that drips from the lips of every journalist worth his salt, or at least, [...]

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Premature Articulation.

January 3, 2011

Illustration from the incomparable Nick Dewar RIP February 2010. We have imported many trends from America; none so misunderstood as the ‘Free Speech’ trumps all other rights. I would hazard a guess that ‘free speech’ is probably the most quoted phrase in the blogosphere. ‘Speech’ is the power of oral communication. Oral. By mouth. Yet [...]

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The ConDem’s greatest mistake so far.

July 30, 2010

Was not to cull the BBC on day two of the new government. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance said as much in a speech a few years ago: “Have no doubt that we are engaged in a cultural battle for the soul of Britain. Failure to defeat the ‘last bastion of  Fabianism’ will lead [...]

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