In a confidential memo addressed to the Prime Minister, an adviser has argued that supporters of the government are ‘increasingly apathetic and disunited’ due to its failure to appeal to … Read the rest
Month: October 2011
Last night saw 81 Conservative MPs rebel against the Government, making it not only the largest ever Tory rebellion on Europe in Government, but very nearly twice as large as … Read the rest
Oh happy days. Just when we think we’re getting a bit tired of doing this rebellions lark, along comes something like Monday’s Euro rebellion. We knew it would be big, … Read the rest
The first benchmark for today’s vote is 41 Conservative MPs. That is (as we have explained before) both the largest Conservative rebellion by government MPs against Europe ever … Read the rest
As the size of Monday’s Conservative rebellion over a referendum on EU membership appears to grow – Newsnight on Friday were talking about 100 Conservative MPs defying the whip – … Read the rest
The parties’ contrasting policy shifts over ‘Europe’ during the last 30 years – Labour moving from opposition to support, the Conservative going in the other direction – is well understood.… Read the rest
During the course of my research on the history of the party election poster, I have identified some interesting ways in which the parties used children.
By looking at a … Read the rest
Following the June 2011 elections, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (pictured) stands as the most successful prime minister in Turkey’s history after winning, since 2002, a third successive victory as leader of … Read the rest
Get Fuzzy is a US syndicated cartoon strip written by Darby Conley. It features Bucky Katt, wise and feline but very nasty, Satchel Pooch, a loyal and rather dumb … Read the rest
Here we go again. Yet another ‘satire’ about Tony Blair. This time from the Comic Strip, those 1980s Alternative Comedians who did so much to stamp out Thatcherism and … Read the rest