When the history books on New Labour are finally written, one subject that will fill volumes will undoubtedly be why it is that Labour are so obsessed with technological solutions to everything, and yet simultaneously so bloody awful at them. So it is that their new passport system has fallen over after just 18,000 applications.… Continue reading Technoprats
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Edifying Campaigning?
Ed Vaizey is angry at the Lib Dems for their dreadful unprincipled campaigns. Regular readers of this blog will know that I can be a bit ambivalent about Lib Dem campaign techniques myself sometimes, but one thing I won’t do is accept lectures from Labour and the Tories. Andy Mayer has been taking Labour to… Continue reading Edifying Campaigning?
Die Harder
Two things to say about Tony Blair’s Bruce Willis inspired soundbite-of-the-day about Nuclear power being “back on the agenda – with a vengeance“: It is insuffrably ridiculous, the verbal equivalent of a 50-something man driving around in a Lambourghini; It is code for “that stuff about being genuinely open minded about nuclear power? Big fat… Continue reading Die Harder