Let’s Move The Conference Season to Somewhere Practical

I’m currently in Birmingham, having attended a few meetings on Friday, and flying back up to Edinburgh tonnight. I’m not staying for the party conference, but I do want to make one observation. The area around the ICC in Birmingham, where the Conservative Party are holding their conference, is awash with police every 10 yards, [...]

Policy #1: Don’t Vote For The Other Lot

Tom Morris Harris might be more than happy that the result of Gordon Brown’s conference speech was “How on earth could anyone vote for that lot [the Conservatives]?” From the party in Government I find this rather poor form.
I want to hear why I should grant your party power to rule over us for the [...]

Meanwhile, Over In America…

Anyone with any political blood runnign through them can’t help having at least half an eye on the US Presidential election, and it’s with that thought that I want to point out Danny O’Brien’s Electoral Guide for the Brits.
First, despite all the freaking out and revelling in the last week or two, Obama is still [...]

Who’s Next In The Labour Resignation Game?

I’ll write up some more thoughts on the current drip… drip… drip… that the Parliamentary Labour Party are going though at the moment, but I wanted to point out one thing in the rapidly changing atmosphere.
Now David Cairns has gone, everyone is looking for, nay expecting someone else, slightly further up the political chain. The [...]

Alcohol’s Minimum Age Change to 21 Ignores Enforcement

Whenever I visit America, I invariably travel through Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, and stop off at one of the concourse Bar and Grills. One of the things that I notice, but it perfectley acceptable by most of the domestic travellers is that whenever someone asks for an alcoholic drink, they are asked for ID (which [...]