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rowan williams vs. the media
02.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Letter responding to today’s Sydney Morning Herald that they are unlikely to print:
I read the editorial in today’s Herald with exasperation. The “age-old division of church and state” referred to is sheer nonsense. The Queen is the head of the Church of England. The secular nature of the UK is enforced by the agnosticism of [...]
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tories, tax and the centre ground
01.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Perhaps the latest round of squabbling from the Tory grassroots (the front bench may have successfully rebranded themselves with the party’s official name, “Conservatives”, but the bulk of the party are the same Tories they always were) will provide the Liberals some tactical space - if they were willing to use it.
ConservativeHome, that shining beacon [...]
British
clegg and the law of the meaningless opposite
01.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

In education policy, Nick Clegg appears to be a fully paid-up member of the cosy consensus of “choice” that the characterises the Labour and Tory front benches.
In his first substantial speech since being elected to the Lib Dem leadership, he stakes out some ideological ground:
There are two crucial dividing lines in British politics. First - [...]
British
clegg’s first steps
01.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Nick Clegg’s first questions to Brown were on fuel bills: a social justice theme, and one which the Lib Dem spin doctors described as being closer to what the person in the street cares about, than Cameron’s ID card questions.
As far as the response from the press, it looked like a good performance (as aggregated [...]
British
nostalgia
01.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I just saw this picture of posters on the wall of the politics classroom at Varndean Sixth Form, where I did my A-Levels, on a “lookback at 2007″ series of photos in the Guardian, and felt a little nostalgic …
British
clegg: good or bad news?
12.28.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I am trying to work out whether Nick Clegg’s accession to the Liberal Democrat leadership is a good or a bad thing.
Certainly, we could do with some good news. There are three major domains in which the New Labour project has disappointed: its willingness to partake in neoconversative killing sprees; its illiberal eagerness to [...]

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