I’ve blogged about this before and I’m sure I will again, but what is Nick Cohen’s problem with liberalism? He has never spelt it out beyond complaining that reality rarely meets the ideal, but that is true of all ideologies, and yet he returns to the subject again and again. This week, Kate Winslet’s Number… Continue reading The evils of liberalism
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One Seat To Rule Them All
Simon Wright links to a cross-EU campaign that people of all political opinions can, surely, unite behind? A petition to scrap the monthly EU Parliament sojourn to Strasbourg. Having worked for an MEP, I know how disruptive this ridiculous system is, and quite how much unneccessary stress it causes. It is bad enough for MEPs… Continue reading One Seat To Rule Them All
21 months
Simon Hughes has been President of the Liberal Democrats for 21 months. I mention this because he seems to believe we should set arbitrary dates after which a politician should be assessed. Can anyone name a single innovation that he has introduced in that time? More specifically, can anyone name a single innovation that he… Continue reading 21 months