All Roads Lead to — Corfu?
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Bless them, the Tories. You can always rely on them to get things wrong.
Off goes Osborne to meet lots of very rich people on board the yacht of a Rothschild. Mandelson is there as befits any gathering of the powerful. Osborne thinks it is a giant wheeze to have a go at Mandy over his [...]
Reading the Reshuffle!
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Now the immediacy of the financial mess is receding, I’ve been pondering about the reshuffle. I guess that it is only natural that we look for signs of who is up and who is down, — that kind of thing.
Much time has been spent mussing on the plight of the two Millibands. Is David’s star [...]
City of Dreams - New Birmingham Blog
Thursday, October 16th, 2008Birmingham left blogs tend to come and go quite quickly, which is a shame really.
Birmingham: City of Dreams is a new blog which has made a promising start, focussing on the realities of economic policy (something close to my heart).
The blogger in question describes himself, rather intriguingly. as:
.. a Southerner trapped in Brum, surrounded [...]
42 Days - what a Mess!
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Just when I thought things were getting a little better up jumps our old friend ‘42 days’.
Not only were yesterday’s proceedings in the Lords a complete fiasco but the performance in the Commons by the Home Secretary was abysmal. Jaqui Smith wasn’t much better on the Today programme this morning.
This cynical ploy to pain opponents [...]
Yes, but …..
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Brown and Darling have skilfully played their way around the current difficulties. But questions do remain about our medium and long term goals
Using Delicious
Thursday, October 9th, 2008There’s so much to read and watch at the moment! I’ve decided to feed in some of my reading from the net, using Delicious. Every couple of days or so the blog will automatically post details of the latest pieces that I have tagged for inclusion here. If you can’t wait that long (or are [...]
Labour’s Future Political Economy?
Thursday, October 9th, 2008The financial crisis has exposed the huge distances separating Labour’s loyalists and progressive economists. Understanding economics is crucial to taking progressive politics forward? But are we brave enough to do it?
Prospects, Prospects?
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008It’s difficult to really know what to make about the events of recent days. I did say that we would know where Brown lay at the end of September. I guess that he will now fight through to lead us into the next election.
But what of the reshuffle? Well, I’ll not say anything about [...]
Conference Score Draw?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008The conference season has ended in a kind of stalemate. Maybe the polls will start to tell a different story over the next couple of weeks. But the financial crisis has drawn out the difference of the two main parties. Each Party not only has a different story to tell but they face distinctly individual [...]
