by nabidana | Apr 6, 2014 | Conservatives, politics
That the newspapers have been keen to hoist Maria Miller, the minister responsible for the shepherding the press regulation legislation from a lamppost for continuing to claim a level of expenses on a mortgage after a favourable change in the lending interest rate is...
by nabidana | Apr 17, 2013 | feminism, politics
On the day Lady Thatcher died, people in Dublin spoke to me with worry on their faces, as if I might spontaneously combust or ascend back to my starship. “Here is a man”, they probably thought, “who is upset about the death of someone I thought was a...
by nabidana | Apr 7, 2013 | Labour Leadership, politics
Noting the continued push for the Labour Party to embrace the ‘One Nation’ absurdity in their branding, the party’s machine decided this weekend to launch a rather poorly thought through poster campaign ‘Who wants to bung a millionaire? Dave...
by nabidana | Apr 5, 2013 | benefits, politics, trident
That the Labour Party has no formulated policy response to the government’s welfare reforms was predictable – that Red Ed’s shadow cabinet and war-makers within Labour have so failed to provide an alternative narrative to the reforms other than...
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...