Monthly Archives: June 2009

Hopi explains the basics and spells it out for the Tory hacks in such easy terms even they should get it… First, what Ed Balls said was “We have acted in the downturn, that will mean that the economy is … Continue reading →

Alan Johnson’s announcement that id cards will not be compulsory for British citizens is to be welcomed. The Government always insisted that it would not be an offence not to carry your id card, and on that basis alone its … Continue reading →

Blogging may be light over the next couple of days because for I seem to have chosen the hottest two days of the year to go tramping around London in a suit.

That Newcastle away strip… THE Newcastle United board has decided to alienate its few remaining fans with a new away kit that looks like a boiled sweet made from urine. The kit will go on sale next week, priced to … Continue reading →

Peter Hitchens in a despairing and futile plea to David Davis to challenge David Cameron’s leadership of the Conservative Party. It is the Cameron pledge to govern as New Labour, which is what has got him the friendship of the … Continue reading →

I’ll shed no tears over this.

I’ve just finished reading Gary Imlach’s splendid My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes, and I can heartily recommend it to anyone interested in football and its place in our social history. Stewart Imlach was a footballer from the … Continue reading →

Quentin Letts: Get. Over. It. Man. You lost. Learn to live with it.

Mike Smithson speculates on whether the Conservatives would oppose John Bercow in a General Election. By tradition the main parties don’t oppose the Speaker, and I doubt if they will this time either. It would make the Tories look spiteful, … Continue reading →

Chris Mullin’s diaries, A View From the Foothills are amongst the most readable political diaries I have ever read. Now, via Hopi’s superb post here, I see we are able to read his views on some of the monumental events … Continue reading →