Forgotten Voters
Jon Cruddas MP and Searchlight editor Nick Lowles: "The New Labour project relied on the assumption that its traditional support, although declining, had nowhere else to go. But this is now changing,...
View ArticleWe're Doomed
The Guardian's Ashley Seager: "We're going into recession. That's all you need to know. Actually, not quite all you need to know. It may be worse than that - we may already be in one. The turn in the...
View ArticleGarden Centre, North Somerset
George Orwell: "Here it is worth noting a minor English trait which is extremely well marked though not often commented on, and that is a love of flowers. This is one of the first things that one...
View ArticleAn Interlude
I'm off with the kids to see my mum for a few days. Back by the end of the week. (P.S. My mum doesn't live in Brighton).
View ArticleLocal Media: More Good Ones Required
Filed this just before I went away. I’d just got off the bus on my way home from the ill-fated Ray Lewis press conference at City Hall when I bumped into someone from Hackney Council. “Have you seen...
View ArticleDegrees Of Disbelief
Why do our broadcasters give so much time on Sunday mornings to reviewing our Sunday newspapers? Andrew Marr's programme, an often enjoyable source of mainstream political preoccupations, is weakened...
View ArticleAt Guardian Comment: John Barrowman & Gay Genes
I could be missing something, but John Barrowman as Captain Jack does seem to be a new kind of gay presence in Britain's Saturday evening TV telly schedules. Here's my friendly-critical piece on his...
View ArticleCanongate Redevelopment
Regeneration projects, as arguably misnamed, excite deep and revealing passions. They can bring out the conservative in the progressive and the progressive in the conservative. They also raise...
View ArticleHoliday Interlude
I'm not leaving from Croydon airport or traveling in one of these. But I am flying to Spain for my family holiday tomorrow morning. As I'm unlikely to go online while I'm away, forgive me if I don't...
View ArticleCaribbean British Kids & Education
New research by Warwick University's Professor Steve Strand has found that British children of Caribbean heritage are discriminated against when entered for SATS tests at Key Stage 3 (Year 9 and aged...
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