New Year’s Resolutions for 2011
I don’t usually make, never mind publish new year’s resolutions. This year though, I’m going to give it a go. So here they are:
Vote for Andy Burnham
Today, ballots for the Labour Leadership contest are being sent out to party members. I can probably expect mine to drop through the letterbox later this week. Here’s the list of candidates: David Miliband Ed Miliband Ed Balls Andy Burnham Diane Abbott My vote will be for Andy Burnham so I thought I’d set out [...]
‘Ground Zero mosque’? The reality is less provocative
Millions of Americans are furious about the ‘Ground Zero mosque’. But it doesn’t exist
‘We’re not rats’
Jimmy Reid’s speech in 1972 I’ve copied this from elsewhere. I just wanted a copy for me, here. Alienation is the precise and correctly applied word for describing the major social problem in Britain today. People feel alienated by society. In some intellectual circles it is treated almost as a new phenomenon. It has, however, [...]
Labour’s vain, venal has-beens should bow out and shut up
They just can’t stop themselves, yesteryear headline addicts, locked in the old quarrels, oozing sectarian malice to their last gasp. Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair elbow their way back into the limelight for one last show with their competing memoirs – a breathtaking self-indulgence dragging the party back, just when the ballot papers for Labour’s future land on doormats tomorrow morning.