By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 We all know the BNP are a shameless mob, so it should come as no surprise that they've now directly copied the design of Barack Obama's campaign website. The new look has been launched this week...spot any similarities? Temerity indeed.
By David Beeson There is a fresh new breeze blowing through politics today. David Cameron and the Tories are going to renew politics in this country and for that we should be deeply grateful to them. Cameron has shown himself to be keen to learn from the errors of the past and avoid making them himself. He saw, for instance, the euphoria that greeted Tony Blair’s election back in 1997. It actually...
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, 52, is under pressure today to back up claims she made on Twitter and to newspapers that she had twice been a victim of sexual harassment at the hands of unnamed Labour MPs. Michael Connarty, MP for Linlithgow and Falkirk East, told the Daily Record: “It seems she is trying to [...]
Matthew D'Ancona (via Iain Dale ): "It's not even that I am especially sceptical about climate change. It's the sanctimonious style of the green lobby and their ministerial accomplices I cannot stand: the collective smugness that comes with absolute moral certainty of any sort and the readiness to disdain and scorn anyone who dares to dissent, even slightly, from any aspect of the new orthodoxy."...
Britain's presence in Afghanistan has been seriously questioned this week following the deaths of seven army personnel, and calls from former junior Foreign Office minister Kim Howells MP to withdraw all troops from the country. Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday defended Britain's continued presence, saying that troops there are "our first line of defence" against terrorist attacks on...
The dimensions of the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan are becoming bigger and more daunting by the day. Once-staunch defenders of the "good war" are starting to break ranks. Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister with responsibility for Afghanistan and current chairman of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, questions in our newspaper today the central tenet of...
Johann Hari had a terrible piece in the Independent yesterday. It was so bad I'm going to paste a large chunk of it and object to/correct it in red. Here we go: Of course, the most consequential policies so far cover the economy, where Cameron is promoting a fringe philosophy rejected by every other elected government. Most economists believe that when private spending collapses, the Government has...
Wall to wall media on Afghanistan has spread the message from this blog to a wider world. My television appearances have produced a vast response. Only one was hostile. Gordon Brown got it wrong again today. More of the same...
For the sake of our cultural life, politicians like Bradshaw and Johnson should leave political drama to the arts Art and politics have always been, and always will be, locked in a complicated and often uncomfortable dance, from Velázquez's double-edged depiction of Pope Innocent X to Mark Wallinger's Turner prize-winning State Britain – a meticulous recreation of Brian Haw's Parliament...
Not often that things come together so well. Just like the Elvis Presley Dambusters Clock Plate of Tutankhamun . - We were facing the prospect of an unelected "President Blair" being landed upon us following Brown's signing of the Lisbon Treaty...without a promised referendum. Thankfully that is not likely to happen. - David Cameron reacted to the Lisbon Treaty ratification with a well-thought...
Before things turned. (By John McDonnell - TWP) Good news: Jason Taylor was on Sirius NFL Radio's "The Sirius Blitz" with Adam Schein on Friday morning, and he didn't have one bad word to say about Daniel Snyder. Praised him effusively, in fact. No, Taylor's criticisms were all about Greg Blache. Hey, it's a change of pace, at least. Something new and cheerful for a Friday afternoon. "The...
• 'This is a very emotional moment for me,' says Italian • Cohen, Hurst, Charlton, Wilson, Peters and Banks at Wembley The England manager, Fabio Capello, said he dreamed of emulating Alf Ramsey by winning the World Cup for England when he unveiled a bust of his predecessor at Wembley Stadium today. "This is a very emotional moment for me and it's a great honour to be here," said...
Here’s one: (hat tip: Admin Girl) Obama wants to reward a judge with a promotion to the same appeals court that has continually overruled him! You heard us. Obama, the legal scholar, is moving for confirmation of Judge David Hamilton to be confirmed to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals after this same court has rebuked [...]
The White House has characterized David Hamilton as a moderate judge whose judicial record would avoid a political confirmation war, but some Republicans say he's a liberal jurist with a political agenda.
Tui boss Peter Long has been in Parliament to lobby against the proposed rises in Air Passenger Duty (APD). Long met several MPs including Paul Clark, Parliamentary under secretary of state for transport. The increases in APD are proposed for November 2010. By which time the UK will have had a change of government. Tory shadow minister Julian Brazier was also in attendance. In my opinion, the UK Government...
Storyline: Donnie Darko gets along poorly with his children, with his teachers and with his classmates; nevertheless he does command to chance upon a kind chum in Gretchen, who agrees to meeting him; and he has a humane psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the method to unlock clandestine secrets. His auxiliary ally may not inhabit a authentic colleague. Donnie has a chum labelled Frank, who is...
I just wanted to wish Boris congratulations on his victory for Mayor of London. I hope he can turn his energy and excitement into something really positive as far as London is concerned. After years of near hatred, I have to say that I was also a little sad to see Ken Livingstone go (but not a lot). He actually seemed to take it quite well. I had visions of him attacking Gordon Brown, the labour party...
When I was young and on a visit to the US, I was taken to a rodeo. I watched the cowboys mount angry bulls which were then released together into the arena. A violent dance then began with the bull trying to buck the cowboy from his back and the cowboy holding on for dear life or at least for dear prize money or bravado. If the bull was successful and the cowboy came crashing to the ground, the bull...
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Is this where Prescott's love of BULLSHIT comes from?