Category: Polithicks
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Thought Vomit #33: ft. The Best Question Time Ever
If you missed this evening’s prime time special of Question Time, let me give you a flavour of how it went down. The extravaganza began as it meant to go on, with an elaborate musical number featuring 646 dancing girls, each representing a Member of Parliament. As the dancers gyrated, the camera swooped by them,…
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Thought Vomit #32: ft. Two Actual Genuine Scandals
Two seemingly separate stories converged today to make one very pertinent point. In Ireland, the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse published the results of it’s nine year investigation, while the National Public Health Service in Wales announced that they are dealing with a “massive” measles outbreak. Oliver Kamm on his blog makes the salient…
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Thought Vomit #30: ft. CPAG
For all their faults, and there are many, Labour have at the very least done one thing right (though not perfectly). When they came to power in 1997, they pledged to eradicate child poverty in the UK by 2020. This issue also provides a useful illumination of the new Conservatives. But first a little history…
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Thought Vomit #27: ft. A Vote For Change
Conservatives for change? Anarchists for the status quo? Come on. As oxymorons* go, that certainly has to be one of the most moronic. The very word conservative should tell you everything you need to know about how this party will change. The dictionary definition of the word is: (adj) disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions,…
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Thought Vomit #25: ft. Unemployment Numbers
A quarter of a million people have lost their job since Christmas. This was being hailed as fairly good news, because it’s less than expected, even though it’s the biggest rise in unemployment over 3 months since 1981. The double-speak was confounded with talk of other promising signs of a slow down in the recession.…
