A terrific kerfuffle is waging over a judge’s decision to grant 9 Afghan hijackers asylum, with both Blair and Cameron muttering about human rights. What do human rights have to do with it? No-one is seriously questioning that we should extradite people to countries where we can expect them to be oppressed or badly treated… Continue reading Are Afghan hijackers human?
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Gordon Brown does not exist
Mike Smithson today asks “How will the Lib Dems cope when the Blair era ends?” His reason for this is that whenever pollsters ask how people would vote if Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, there is a consistent shift from Lib Dem to Labour. He goes on to say: Yet judging by the blogs of… Continue reading Gordon Brown does not exist
Millennial Tension
What are we to make of the fact that Frank Luntz took the time to email a fluffy toy elephant a response at 5.30am? As with his response to the Liberal Review, he appears to be blissfully unaware that he didn’t make any quantifiable predictions at all, or that, in the case of the Tory… Continue reading Millennial Tension