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Casting ‘Total Politics’ into the Archipelago.

March 11, 2010

I confess to a currently fashionable perversion – I do occasionally sneak a late night look at ’stat porn’, the web record of how many people are reading your blog, and where they come from. I try to restrict myself to two minutes once a week, I am scared of becoming addicted, and the last [...]

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The Women in Parliament.

November 7, 2009
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Back when Noah was still drawing up the blueprint for his Ark, long before I was born, my Aunt stood against a certain Bessie Braddock as Conservative candidate for St Anne’s Ward in Liverpool. Aunty vanished without trace of course, apart from one vote found lying under the counting officer’s table, probably, though not certainly, [...]

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McMysogeny and Gynophobic Politics.

April 17, 2009
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Who can forget the colourful outburst by Sir Richard Mottram, the permanent secretary at the Department of Transport, in response to news that special adviser Jo Moore had suggested 9/11 was a good day to bury bad news. He said:
“We’re all fucked. I’m fucked. You’re fucked. The whole department’s fucked. It’s the biggest cock-up ever [...]

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