by nabidana | Feb 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by nabidana | Oct 21, 2009 | politics
This website is primarily about UK politics, and rarely forays into the politics of Ireland. There’s a simple enough reason for this; the blogger doesn’t feel that there’s a significantly developed school of political thought in Ireland with a...
by nabidana | Oct 2, 2009 | Europe
I had a protracted Twitter conversation with @ijclark last evening about Micha? Kaminski, the leader of the new anti-federalist European Parliamentary group. The main bone of contention seems to be the allegation that Mr. Kaminski is an anti-semite and, by extension,...
by nabidana | Aug 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
A tory council in England is [was vaguely] considering whether it can [could] make arrangements to fund the places in private schools of pupils whose parents might lose their jobs. Labour politicos are trying to use this as a political football. Let’s be clear...
by nabidana | May 14, 2009 | commerce and trade, politics, stupidity, technology
Britain now hates all its elected representatives, considers them all cheating scum and wants to see them suffer. That’s the impression one gets reading the blogs and public comments. The reality is, we are pissed with our MPs and want them to go straight; this...