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Improvement at the Guardian 20 Feb 2011 | 01:26 am
Since I spotted that the third most popular book at the Guardian Bookshop was Hitler’s Mein Kampf, things seem to have improved somewhat: This week’s bestsellers WikiLeaksby David Leigh & Luke Ha...
Annoying adverts 18 Feb 2011 | 10:11 am
As a fellow resident of sarf east London, I greatly appreciated Darryl’s post on irritating advert men polluting our public space with their annoying faces. I used to detest horsey race man but I’ve g...
‘Mein Kampf’ a favourite of Guardian readers? 18 Feb 2011 | 10:05 am
I was browsing Guardian.co.uk, as one does. There was an interesting article on health inequalities which filled me with all sorts of leftie worries and concerns. But then I nearly choked on my fair t...
Rejecting Progressive Labour 7 Feb 2011 | 10:56 am
There was a story this week by Kevin Maguire in the Mirror suggesting that Ed Miliband may try to give his party a new name, such as ‘Progressive Labour’. It’s a silly story as such an attempt would ...
The left must lose its instinctive defence of multiculturalism 7 Feb 2011 | 01:07 am
David Cameron made a perfectly sensible speech at a security conference in Germany and – predictably enough – many of my fellow travellers have got their knickers in a twist. Billy Bragg complains ab...
The Coalition Government has killed Enterprise in the UK 1 Feb 2011 | 11:15 am
Enterprise UK was the body set up to promote entrepreneurialism in the UK. It was started by people like the CBI and British Chamber of Commerce and had that Peter Jones from Dragon’s Den as the Chair...
Waiting for the people of Egypt to set up a secular democracy before the celebrations can begin 1 Feb 2011 | 11:06 am
Many leftie friends and acquaintances are understandably excited about the revolutionary situation in Egypt. ‘Solidarity with the people of Egypt‘ is the Facebook status update de jour. Of course, it...
The new Shadow Cabinet is already going off-message 21 Jan 2011 | 09:30 am
So it hasn’t worked out very well with Alan Johnson. The argument that making him Shadow Chancellor would lock him into supporting Ed Miliband’s leadership was undermined when he made a habit of publ...
Remembering the New Cross fire 19 Jan 2011 | 11:28 am
Good post on a terrible event which happened in my local area 30 years ago.
Christian crossing the floor 18 Jan 2011 | 11:19 am
Ex-Anglican bishops ordained as Catholics. So can this be equated to politicians changing party? Would the Catholics, eager to get one up on the Protestants, have secretly courted the defectors? The...
