Or, some things are too awful to talk about
Published at 6:12 pm on October 2nd, 2020
Filed under: Political, Feeling Meh.
Very long-term readers, or people who have gone delving around in the archives, might be aware that back when this site started, I used to talk about politics on a reasonably regular basis. Indeed, if you look in the menus (either down below or over on the right), you can see there’s a whole category for it. Since the restart, though, there really hasn’t been anything political that I have wanted to write about, or thought it worth writing about at all.
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Keyword noise: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, David Cameron, pandemic, apathy, authoritarianism, bad news, Tories, Conservatives, Prime Minister, prophecy, xenophobia.
In which we worry that the PM is a potential Doctor Who villain
Published at 6:46 am on May 17th, 2010
Filed under: Geekery, Political.
Since the election, I’ve felt a bit sorry for Gordon Brown, what with all the people who have rushed to gloat and put the boot in since his progressive downfall started. Last week’s Have I Got News For You featured a montage of his strained-looking toothy smile, his clunky body-language, as if the ability to smile and shake hands smoothly was indeed what really mattered in a leader. I can sympathise partly because my own smiles are often as bad as his, especially if I’m trying to pose. When I’m smiling for the camera, everyone else shuffles their feet and small children run away crying; so when people make fun of Gordon Brown for suffering the same problem, he definitely gets my sympathies.
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Keyword noise: Auton, David Cameron, Doctor Who, elections, General Election, Gordon Brown, horror, Nick Clegg, plastic.
In which we wonder what they were on
Published at 9:58 pm on July 19th, 2007
Filed under: Political.
In which we look at political motives
Published at 7:09 pm on December 18th, 2005
Filed under: Political.
The new Tory leader has jumped right in to the job, and is trying to persuade Liberal Democrats to cross the floor and join his party. Presumably he thinks that the Tory party itself has no hope of attracting new blood – or that politics itself is always a zero-sum game – so is trying to mind-meld. Maybe it’s working. Although there’s sometimes national-level talk of Labour and the Lib Dems working on a similar wavelength, out in the country they are usually fighting like rabid wolves, and Lib Dem-Tory alliances are far more common. In fact, my own local council – the worst local council in the country – is one.
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Keyword noise: alliance, coalition, David Cameron, government, Liberal Democrats, liberalism, local government, Tories.
In which we consider the ideal qualities of a party leader
Published at 8:18 pm on December 7th, 2005
Filed under: Political.
In which we think about the Tories, but try not to think about them for very long
Published at 8:30 pm on October 20th, 2005
Filed under: Political.
All politicians are evil, but Tories tend to be more evil than the others. I’m mostly interested in the current leadership contest purely out of a grim kind of schadenfreude: they are an aging party which is slowly pulling itself apart. I can’t help thinking that the main reason for their lengthy, baroque leadership election process is purely to help the party stay in the public eye* for longer.
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Keyword noise: David Cameron, David Davis, elections, opposition, leadership election, Tories.
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