Skipper’s call to abandon a Trident replacement and save £60bn is a little simplistic. To portray the argument primarily in terms of cost is to risk appearing naive: you can’t put a price on a national security. Nevertheless, Britain’s nuclear deterrent appears increasingly redundant. Nuclear weapons are a hangover from a time when Continue reading
I almost fell off the running machine at the gym yesterday when Sky News showed this image of Hazel Blears apparently leaking plans for MPs’ second homes allowance. But I righted myself, assuming it to be some satire… but no. Given the recent security scare prompted by Bob Quick’s blunder and Caroline Flint’s Continue reading
As soon as we are done examining why David Cameron was wrong to push for Gordon Brown’s Smeargate apology, the death of Ian Tomlinson illustrates what a liability Tory bloggers are for the Conservative Party. The smug — predictably anonymous — author of the award winning Letters From A Tory, has worked hard Continue reading
At the end of a long week, Gordon Brown has apologised after high profile blogger Derek Draper and special advisor Damian McBride discussed plans to smear Tories online with a website modelled on the right wing Guido Fawkes. (We need to be careful not to call Paul Staines, who authors Guido Fawkes, a Continue reading
What to do with the banks is set to be a significant post-recession battleground, with the Conservatives already looking towards relatively straightforward privatisation. To be fair, they have pledged to break the banks up. That would at least introduce some much needed competition to the sector and spread the risk should things go Continue reading
‘By focussing on class, we would effectively be conceding that we don’t have anything to say about Tory policies.’ – Tom Harris MP Like Bob Piper, we should all be shocked that Labour MP Tom Harris doesn’t seem to understand the importance of social class and why a class based analysis of politics Continue reading
