A shambolic week for Labour.

A shambolic week for Labour.

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...

Watching political porn

I sat up last night watching porn. Or rather, the feeling of self-disgust and shame I feel this morning makes me feel like I did. The memories of the actual contents of my nocturnal viewing are hazy, until now… The mist of memory is clearing… And...

Anger or calm.

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...
Plan B is scarcely a plan at all.

Plan B is scarcely a plan at all.

To read this entry, please ensure that: you appreciate literally hundreds of mixed metaphors you know who made your shoes you aren’t currently interested in giving me a job In 2009, during what was a worldwide recession (Gordon was right about that), the UK had...