So, Russell Brand’s interview on Newsnight and New Statesman editorial has caused an awful lot of brouhaha, and I’d kind of like to join in. I find a lot of what he has to say on the subject of voting not only wrong but actually quite offensive. His assertion that my grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ generation… Continue reading Russell Brand and the Emperor’s new thong
Month: October 2013
Jeremy Browne: off his trolley
The Times’s interview with Jeremy Browne today (link to the Guardian because it doesn’t have a paywall and there’s nothing in the Times original that you’re missing) highlights for me the inherent contradiction of the Lib Dem right wing. They’ve always veered between two modes. One is that the wicked left of the party have… Continue reading Jeremy Browne: off his trolley
Channel 4 News’s problem with women
(Disclosure: I am friends with both a number of the women who have made allegations against Lord Rennard and Jo Swinson. Channel 4 News’s interview with Sarah Teather summed up the misgivings I have had with its coverage of the whole Chris Rennard scandal. Ostensibly about the coalition’s increasingly harsh line against immigration and welfare,… Continue reading Channel 4 News’s problem with women