Government: The Final Frontier

One of the truly awful things about conference this week was music used for the video photomontages – all three of them – that they insisted on playing before the leader’s speech, all three of which were to the tune of the most vein-opening soft rock I’ve ever come across. Personally, I’d never heard of… Continue reading Government: The Final Frontier

I enjoyed conference shocker!

People who know me may have noticed that by halfway through autumn conferences in the last few years I have become very sullen and withdrawn, wandering around the halls of the conference centre muttering darkly under my breath. The truth is, in recent years I’ve come to loathe party conferences. They’ve increasingly become worryingly close… Continue reading I enjoyed conference shocker!

An Orange Wash

There is one positive thing you have to accept about this “Orange Book 2” – aka Britain after Blair. At least they’re finally taking health and safety seriously. Look at the cover to the old book. Marshall and Laws have got that poor girl leaning at an uncomfortable angle. She looks like she might topple… Continue reading An Orange Wash