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What is Labour’s economic policy? 20 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
As I’ve noted, no one at all in the mainstream media or blog commentariat , left or right, seems to have any idea what Labour’s emerging economic policy actually is. This is largely, I suspect, becau...
Pickard’s politics 15 Aug 2013 | 02:07 pm
Jim Pickard, Chief Political Correspondent at the FT has an inadvertently [see update] interesting and amusing article up, in which he seeks to endorse the commentariat view that Ed Miliband is in cri...
In defence of Labour’s policy vacuum 13 Aug 2013 | 04:16 am
In a long piece, John Harris informs us that it’s all going wrong for Labour: Labour is belatedly trying to make the running on the crisis in people’s living standards. Policy-wise, there has been ta...
An open letter to Ed Miliband on the future of the labour movement 23 Jul 2013 | 04:51 pm
A couple of weeks ago Ed Miliband gave what was branded a watershed speech, in which he sought use the Falkirk selection hoo-hah to kick-start a whole new approach to party-union relations, and ultima...
Will Ed take on the real power base in the party? 9 Jul 2013 | 03:04 am
Though Cowards Flinch is springing back into life, just like I said it definitely wouldn’t, with some instant reaction on Ed Miliband’s pre-announcement on the funding link between Labour and the affi...
This is the end 13 May 2013 | 06:45 pm
As ex-readers may have noticed, this is an ex-blog. The end came quickly, as I thought it might, but kind of hoped it wouldn’t. I’ve got lots to do, and not that much time. Some of what I do will cha...
Message from Molière 10 May 2013 | 09:57 pm
I have addressed the Right’s self-righteousness on matters grammatical before, on the basis that trying to teach kids grammar out of context is really quite stupid and wrong. But it occurs to me that ...
Franz Kafka and the socialist response to UKIP 3 May 2013 | 12:56 pm
Today it looks like UKIP is on the rise, and may have broken through. Very bad news. At times like this, Kafka is need. Kafka as Freudian? There are about as many interpretations of Kafka’s work as ...
Michael Gove’s gerundial confusion 6 Apr 2013 | 02:09 am
Today, the Times Educational Supplement reports on the spelling and grammar tests being forced upon primary school children against the advise of educationalists: Experts consulted by the Department f...
TCF and leftwing sex fiction 26 Mar 2013 | 07:00 pm
Luke Bozier’s emergence as a writer of quality sex fiction (h/t @carlraincoat) reminds me that TCF is really very good in this genre too, though we specialise more in sex-fiction-as-interface-between ...
