The cat is now well and truly out of the bag and it will be interesting to see how the blogosphere responds. Beyond the usual “OMG!!1! YOU’VE SOLD OUT TO ZaNuPFLieBore!?!11!” of course. I thought I’d add a few comments here in a vain attempt to clear a few things up and prebut some of… Continue reading Neal Lawson and James Graham: All your base are belong to us
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Andy Burnham’s unhealthy flag wrapping claptrap
I’ve written a response to Andy Burnham’s astounding Guardian article on the NHS on the SLF website: Given the choice between “national”, “health” and “service” the word that Burnham considers most key to the Labour approach is the former. Ignore “health”, never mind “service” – who needs a bandage when you can wrap yourself in… Continue reading Andy Burnham’s unhealthy flag wrapping claptrap
Three things for your attention
Firstly, I just thought I would direct people to my piece defending the Convention on Modern Liberty and its “outrageous” decision to be cross-party. It has had an interestingly muted response. The most fascinating one was from Sadie Smith whose paraphrase of my article was that I defined anyone who is boycotting the Convention “because… Continue reading Three things for your attention