Monthly Archives: April 2005

Anyone who has ever come into contact with Kath Phillips will know that this required a superhuman effort. I can think of a couple of Sandwell councillors who find it impossible.

Following Labour’s defeat in the 1983 General Election the right-wing of the Party, (remembered nostalgically by some as ‘Old Labour’) did what they always do, and blamed the left wing of the Party for the defeat. Never mind that the … Continue reading →

Charles Kennedy says the atmosphere at this General Election reminds him of those ‘heady days’ of the 1983 election. Heady days indeed. The Liberals got 10 seats, the Alliance got 13 and the SDP got 3. I’ll settle for that.

“There is absolutely no disagreement between colleagues in our Party” (picture via Honorable Fiend)

Beats a night with Edwina any day of the week!

Thanks to Peter Gasston for this:

A popular tactic of those who like to think of themselves ‘on the left’ is to smear those to the left of them as being either mad (Benn, Scargill, Derek Robinson) or fascists. Cohen in The Observer uses the latter … Continue reading →

Today’s Guardian lists some of this summer’s music festivals. Glastonbury, probably Britain’s biggest outdoor music bash gets a mention, but it clashes with the Festival Gnaoua in Essaouira that Mrs P. and myself are going to (which The Guardian fails … Continue reading →

Almost every radical I’ve spoken to or read on blog sites who has filled in one of those ‘How should I vote?’ Internet surveys has been told they should vote Liberal Democrat. As we know, come election day, they will … Continue reading →

Hemming, egg, face, let me introduce you. Birmingham’s very own Screaming Lord Sutch makes the news again. He cannot say he wasn’t told. Usually, within minutes of a blog post about him, particularly in respect of postal votes, Hemming shoots … Continue reading →