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 think some people are not entitled to keep their opinions to themselves
Published at 9:05 pm on November 7th, 2006
Filed under: Political.
In which there’s nothing to vote for
Published at 3:52 pm on April 29th, 2006
Filed under: Political.
In which Boris Johnson might help perpetuate a stereotype
Published at 11:41 am on January 16th, 2006
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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