Gordon Brown labels Unite strike ‘Deplorable, Unjustified’

Uncategorized 15 March 2010 1 Comment

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/15/gordon-brown-labels-unite-strike-deplorable-unjustified/’;
digg_title = ‘Gordon Brown labels Unite strike ‘Deplorable, Unjustified’’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Gordon Brown says the British Airways strike being proposed by Unite is coming ‘at the wrong time’. Wrong time how, exactly? Wrong for all the Easter holidaymakers desperate to briefly escape the UK for a week, or wrong for all those [...]

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The Result of the General Election of 2010

Election 2010, politics 8 March 2010 1 Comment

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/08/the-result-of-the-general-election-of-2010/’;
digg_title = ‘The Result of the General Election of 2010′;
digg_bodytext = ‘Conservative victory
The Conservative Party, led by David Cameron, won the 2010 General Election.  The party secured a majority of 23 seats in an election contest which turned out less close than had previously been predicted.
Controversy over election night count
Polling day for the [...]

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Proposed cuts to the BBC should worry Tories

Bbc, commerce and trade, politics 3 March 2010 2 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/03/proposed-cuts-to-the-bbc-should-worry-tories/’;
digg_title = ‘Proposed cuts to the BBC should worry Tories’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The announcement of proposed cuts to BBC services has been overwhelmingly welcomed by commercial broadcasters and judged as too timid by many conservatives. Yet the proposed changes and the timing represent serious challenges for the Conservatives as a party, and we [...]

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Bullying

Uncategorized, politics 22 February 2010 0 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/22/bullying/’;
digg_title = ‘Bullying’;
digg_bodytext = ‘First, a confession.  It seems I am in some circumstances a bully. Unfortunately, in order to explore the phenomenon, I shall have to resort to the language of the military. Analogies will be stretched, nokias will be hurled, and it may help you if you imagine me naked on [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

tweets 7 February 2010 1 Comment

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/07/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-07/’;
digg_title = ‘Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07′;
digg_bodytext = ‘
Nadine Dorries has finally lost it. Again. #
Heading into a nicely complex meeting. Hope to emerge alive. #
Just emerged from the meeting. Frustrating. Very frustrating. #
Off to the Irish premiere of Invictus. Just has to better Escape to Victory to be [...]

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Hello Margaret, Goodbye, SDLP?

Uncategorized 7 February 2010 1 Comment

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/07/hello-margaret-goodbye-sdlp/’;
digg_title = ‘Hello Margaret, Goodbye, SDLP?’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The decision to elect Margaret Ritchie MLA leader of the Social, Democratic and Labour Party is the decision which will destroy the party.
To be fair, the choice was between a political operator at turns smooth and utterly unsophisticated whom many in the party couldn’t bring themselves [...]

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Weekend Contumely 16/01/2010

politics, stupidity 17 January 2010 2 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/17/weekend-contumely-16012010/’;
digg_title = ‘Weekend Contumely 16/01/2010′;
digg_bodytext = ‘This week has been dominated by the Iraq Inquiry, the phoney war precursor to the 2010 General Election and continued political fallout from the apparently unstoppable vagina of scandal surrounding Iris Robinson, MP MLA.
The Iraq Inquiry has begun to become interesting.  Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair’s spin doctor, was [...]

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Weekend Contumely 8 January 2010

Hoons, politics 9 January 2010 0 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/09/weekend-contumely-8-january-2010/’;
digg_title = ‘Weekend Contumely 8 January 2010′;
digg_bodytext = ‘

A new section of the blog whereupon we kick the tyres on the stories of the week and work out what lessons we can learn.
Labour ‘Dodgy Dossier’ Launch
Labour are rather keen on launching dossiers, aren’t they?  As if their intelligence dossier on Iraq’s Weapons of [...]

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An open letter to Comrades Hoon and Hewitt

Uncategorized 7 January 2010 7 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/07/an-open-letter-to-comrades-hoon-and-hewitt/’;
digg_title = ‘An open letter to Comrades Hoon and Hewitt’;
digg_bodytext = ‘
Dear Comrades Hoon and Hewitt,
Let me first say that I am shocked, dismayed, disgruntled, flabbergasted, confused, angered, humbled, incensed, overwhelmed, overjoyed, under-impressed, reddened and outraged by your actions of the last few days.
Like you, many years ago I was a bedwetting communist, [...]

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Labour Party Constitutional Provisions for the Leader: Labour opens leadership to Mandelson

Hoons, politics 6 January 2010 0 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/06/labour-party-constitutional-provisions-for-the-leader-labour-opens-leadership-to-mandelson/’;
digg_title = ‘Labour Party Constitutional Provisions for the Leader: Labour opens leadership to Mandelson’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Clause 7:
1 Party officers
1A Leader and deputy leader
(a) There shall be a leader and deputy leader of the party who shall, ex-officio, be leader and deputy leader of the PLP.
(b) The leader and deputy leader of the party [...]

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