A few months ago I wrote about how the media, once they’ve decided on a narrative, use every single minor incident they can to reaffirm this while downplaying every major event that contradicts it. In that case I was talking about Ming Campbell and the fact that the media had settled on narrative focussed on… Continue reading A long ramble about Cherie Blair and mythology
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Outside the Gates of Hell
For reasons I won’t go into now, I find myself at Labour Party conference. To be precise, I’m currently sitting in the Starbucks outside the Midland Hotel in Manchester. Simply everyone is here, darlings. Dave Miliband and his band of sycophants have just left. Geoff Hoon is sitting behind me and a man has just… Continue reading Outside the Gates of Hell
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