![Lessons from Philpott? Unlikely, but let’s see.]()
by nabidana | Apr 4, 2013 | politics
When George Osborne waded into the tragic case of the Derby fire deaths today, all eyes turned to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to identify a gaffe, an insensitivity or a slight. When they didn’t detect one, they decided to make one up. The Chancellor seems...
by nabidana | Apr 2, 2013 | Labour Leadership, politics, stupidity
The UK is beset by an enemy within. The enemy is not the unemployed, it’s certainly not people with disabilities, the sick or immigrants. Nor is the enemy the businesses, large and small, which want to employ people and pay their fair contribution to taxes and...
by nabidana | Jun 6, 2012 | politics
This site has been dormant for a while for a number of reasons. First of all, it’s hard to shill for a government in power, particularly when things are a bit hiccuppy. Secondly, I am writing. I have only so many ideas which don’t involve the secret...
by nabidana | May 1, 2012 | Conservatives, Election 2012, politics
In two days, thousands of Conservative councillors around the country will face the wrath of an electorate not quite sure what they stand for, but for whom protest, in the form of a vote for Labour, will come incredibly easily. The peculiar thing is that most people...
by nabidana | Dec 6, 2011 | Europe, Ireland, politics, unstupidity
To the lovely (and now engaged) @sharonashambles. Ireland is screwed. From the moment some moron decided to break away from the greatest nation on Earth, through the moment someone thought it’d be a good idea to shoot the chap who negotiated peace with the...
by nabidana | Aug 8, 2011 | London, politics
Everybody seems to be wondering why the UK response to rioting has been so slow. There are also plenty of people asking why Boris doesn’t do something. The answer is pretty simple; the civil disturbance is now so serious that the only reasonable response to it...
