To Go or Not to Go?
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007I hesitate to venture forth into the debate about the General Election. But I’m on a role here after being voted No.70 in the best Left Wing Blogs 2007 (and this only started a few months ago). So here goes.
I was thinking about going to Conference this year, but I decided to buy a house [...]
There is no military solution ….
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007David Milliband’s assertion, yesterday, that while there can be military victories there can be no military solutions, is - in many ways - a statement of the blindingly obvious. And yet it was a very powerful statement and seemed to signal real change. A sign of just how much of a mess we’d got ourselves [...]
Big Gordon - Just Keeps Getting Duller!
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007.. and we love it.
It has been fascinating watching the reaction to Brown’s speech. Rather inevitably, I suppose, those who are at the conference are raving about it. TV news even had pictures of Neil Kinnock with tears running down his face.
But the speech was dull. Masterfully dull. After years of spin and hype it’s [...]
Podcast: Active Citizens and Public Engagement
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Active citizenship is a concept that we’re hearing more and more about these days. But developing active citizens poses real challenges to both political institutions and public agencies - we won’t encourage people to play a more active role in their community unless we engage them far more effectively and imaginatively.
For this podcast Political Furures visited [...]
