by nabidana | Mar 10, 2010 | commerce and trade, Europe, politics, Racism
Next week begins European Week Against Racism, a week when organisations opposed to racism host events to highlight racial prejudice and discrimination, and to celebrate the existence of societies where discrimination on the colour of a person’s skin or their...
by nabidana | Mar 9, 2010 | Election 2010, politics, stupidity
Dear ‘Gauleiter’ Dale, I write to you as a regular reader of your Total Politics magazine, to complain in the starkest, clearest, most sincere and least obscurantist way I know how about your recent well-publicised and disgusting interview with the hated...
by nabidana | Mar 8, 2010 | Election 2010, politics
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...
by nabidana | Mar 3, 2010 | Bbc, commerce and trade, politics
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...
by nabidana | Feb 27, 2010 | podcast, politics
I’m watching the rugby today, and as Ireland’s most obnoxiously proud England supporter, despite having been born in Londonderry, brought up in Co. Down and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution,(whose former head coach is now the Ulster...
by nabidana | Feb 22, 2010 | politics, Uncategorized
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...