• Lib Dem leader likely to back most votes, not seats • Narrowing Tory poll lead hints at hung parliament The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, suggested today he would be unlikely to prop up Labour should the general election result in a hung parliament, setting back the likelihood of a Lib-Lab alliance if the Tories were to fall short of a majority. On Sunday an Ipsos-Mori opinion poll...
David Cameron said to Andrew Marr on the Andrew Marr Show that... "I don’t want an ‘in or out’ referendum because I don’t think ‘out’ is in Britain’s interests." In other words Cameron thinks if we held a referendum on in or out the answer would be out! He's still of the opinion that we can somehow negotiate with these people to regain sovereignty...
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has welcomed a new opinion poll in The Observer that suggests the next general election will not be a "shoo-in". Mr Clegg was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show. The poll suggests that the Conservative lead over Labour has been reduced to just 6% and if repeated at a general election it would result in a hung Parliament.
Churchill, Romola and Stephen. Remember Romola Garai from the latest Emma and the young girl in Atonement? She has just made a film with Stephen Poliakoff – a mystery thriller – Glorious 39 which promises to be next in line of exciting British films released in the last year. A fan, already I predict Romola will be the next Keira Knightley. Interestingly she has had no formal dramatic training....
From the fall of the empire to the rise of democracy, via the birth of eugenics, a media explosion, a motoring revolution and a bit of music-hall bawdiness thrown in for good measure – and that's just the first show in Andrew Marr's magnificent story of Britain from the death of Queen Vic to the end of the Second World War.
Tanks in Glasgow, in 1919, ready to shoot the people. How vicious are the ruling elite? "In 1919 Glasgow's engineering unions called for a general strike starting on 27 January in support of the demand for a 40-hour working week... "The Government sent English troops to Glasgow... "Six tanks and 100 motor lorries accompanied the troops, and they were sent to strategic points across the...
BBC was criticised for ageism after dropping veteran newsreader Moira Stuart after four decades More than two years after the BBC dropped her – sparking accusations of ageism – veteran newsreader Moira Stuart is being lined up for a return to the airwaves on Chris Evans's BBC Radio 2 breakfast show . Stuart, a familiar voice on BBC television for four decades, is understood to be Evans's...
Bloggers annual bid to stir up feelings of envy and insecurity in Westminster press corps works its magic again Iain Dale has done it again. In his annual bid to stir up feelings of envy and insecurity in the Westminster press corps, his Total Politics magazine has published its list of the top 100 political journalists . They base their results on a survey of their readers, who include MPs, peers,...
I s there a sillier man in British politics than speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow? Please don’t write in on a postcard because the question was a rhetorical one to which the answer is no there isn’t. Last weekend Mr Bercow popped up on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme to tell us all that in his esteemed opinion MP’s should expect to receive ‘rough justice’...
I read Prospect magazine so as to understand and keep an eye on the Gramscians. I deserve a fucking medal. I don’t know how much longer I can keep it up. It is an infinitely depressing task. I consider it a sort of duty, to be undertaken only with a glass of Caledonian medication in hand to stiffen the resolve. The stiffener is a sine qua non lest after an hour in the company of bitter and self-pitying...
Am considering doing my PhD - thinking about the role of universities in society, a timely topic in the UK, where higher education is currently being compromised by financial matters. Research must have 'impact', business should have input to curriculum, students as consumers, etc. Like my personal political ideology, my professional ideals are currently in a state of confusion and transition. Perhaps...
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