I’ve written a piece on Our Kingdom about the government’s meaningless new party funding proposals: Hencke asserts that “The Conservatives have been blocked from targeting Labour marginals with spending that can run to tens of thousands of pounds a year by legislation which will limit all parties’ candidates to spending a maximum of £12,000 from… Continue reading Party funding on OK
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Seumus Milne: why let the facts get in the way of a good argument?
Seaumus Milne is one of my least favourite columnists, to the extent that I rarely bother reading more than the byline of his articles. I bit this week though, although I needn’t have bothered. His article “A mania for tax cuts at any cost defies public opinion” gets the current political situation pretty much ass-backwards.… Continue reading Seumus Milne: why let the facts get in the way of a good argument?
Nicolas Blincoe demoted by Guardian
Nicolas Blincoe’s profile on Comment is Free used to describe him as a “volunteer advisor to Nick Clegg’s leadership campaign”. It now reads: Nicholas Blincoe is an author, critic and screenwriter. He is a former advisor to Nick Clegg MP.