Posted in moblog on April 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Noticed Tony Benn soaking up the sun outside the House of Commons. I u-turned and greeted him. He was friendly, relaxed - very pleasant. Not entirely sure about the soundness of all his ideological commitments, but a character he is, indubitably.
Posted in zeitgeist on February 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Interesting NY Times article via Scott Heiferman’s Notes. Hillary’s core constituency sounds remarkably like Hilter’s.
Can this be true?
Posted in world on October 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Where do you stand in the new culture wars? - Times Online
Yet another commentator pointing out what strange bedfellows anti ‘war in Iraq’ liberals and Islamic fundamentalists make. It’s pretty self evident that this kind of respectful relativism can be ridiculous. Hitchens, though, isn’t immune to inconsistency; a one time apologist for Republican dumbness, his [...]
Posted in ethics, world, zeitgeist on January 2nd, 2007 6 Comments »
You couldn’t have made recent headlines up. Poor lib dems. First Charles Kennedy, then that gay rent boy habit, there’s Menzies Campbell generally, which has the unfortunate habit of giving the whole party the air of a nursing home, and now Lembit Opik, weak-chinned ‘wild-man’ of the Liberal Democrats, is dating one of the pair [...]
