In a very short term, Daniel Kawcynski has, for me, come to represent everything that is venal about the Conservative Party. I’ve already written about him a couple of times, about his fact-free attack on electoral reform and his equally evidence-lite claim that evil liberals were trying to stir up hatred against Poles. Now he… Continue reading Kawczynski is a disgrace
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Dangerous Complacency over the Damian Green affair
Sniping at Tory mendacity aside, I can’t help but feel a palpable sense of complacency in the Observer today over the Damian Green affair. First up, we have the normally sensible Vernon Bogdanor. WTF? It doesn’t take a Professor of Government at Oxford University to tell you that the police actions were constitutional. The “virtue”… Continue reading Dangerous Complacency over the Damian Green affair
We may live in a police state, but at least we don’t live in their police state
So, what to make of the incarceration of Damo Green? We, not to disagree with a word of what Nick Clegg has to say, I find myself siding with Justin McKeating at the same time. It IS very worrying, but I find it difficult sympathising with the plight of a party which – when in… Continue reading We may live in a police state, but at least we don’t live in their police state