Archive for the ‘News’ Category
As if my opinion of the British Royal Family could sink no lower, this weekend’s Fergie sting reaffirmed all of my republican sympathies and reignited my rampant enthusiasm for slashing the civil list. Literally days after Sarah Ferguson was filmed accepting a princely sum for hiring out her ex husband, our sovereign is trotting out […]
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Tags: ceremony, civil list, Cromwell, custom, dated, economy, Fergie, government, hangers on, Labour, Liberal Democrats, parliament, Prince Andrew, privy purse, Queen, republican, state opening, the Queen, tradition, treasury
I’ve covered in some detail what to wear on Election Night, which is all well and good for feeling good on the outside, however, Election Night is a long, veritable marathon of polls, percentages and very dull talking heads – and sensible people such as myself aren’t likely to make it to the first announcements […]
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Tags: Conservatives, Election 2010, election night, Food, Green party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Pizza, Politics, voting
Like I have so many subjects before, I have done an easy-to-digest guide to the Election from my point of view using the alphabet as a vehicle for my inane musings. A – Apathy. The single biggest decider in this election is apathy. With so many people feeling disenfranchised by Labour and untrusting of the […]
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Tags: Alan Duncan, Alphabet, bankers, campaign, Conservatives, David Cameron, debate, election, employment, expenses, Facebook, Gordon Brown, Labour, leaders debate, Liberal Democrats, Miriam Durantez, money, Nick Clegg, Politics, Sarah Brown, tax, tories, Twitter, vince cable
It is such a cliché to begin a piece with the sentence ‘with the election in full swing’ or ‘campaigning began in earnest’ – so I am going to use words to that effect. No I’m not, I’m just going to bite the bullet and jump on the bandwagon. With the election in full swing, […]
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Tags: 2010, agents, Alan Duncan, BBC, blogging, Conservatives, election, electorate, Facebook, GMTV, graduates, grey vote, ITV, Labour, Lib Dem, Liberal Democrats, live debates, Melton, News, Politics, rutland, Twitter, voting
Two thousand and tense
There is an air of desperation about the blinking-newborn days of this box-fresh decade. Is it just me or is the media a little (to use a Christmas cracker punchline) tense? I have a few ideas of my own hypothesising why this great funk has swept over the nation like so many cold fronts sweeping […]
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Tags: 2010, Baldwin, CBB, Christmas, David Tennant, desperate, Doctor Who, election, expenses, gym, Lady Sovereign, pay day, Politics, Question Time, recession, resolutions, Tension, wine
The reformation of the Government which was promised to us in 1996 has, if nothing else, reversed and regressed back to the bad old days of pomp and hierarchy. The whole ‘us’ and ‘them’ attitude of The Commons stinks. There is no better word to encompass my feeling towards the last weeks of reluctant coughing […]
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Tags: Alan Duncan, committee, Commons, election, expenses, House of Commons, Jacqui Smith, members club, pomp, Question Time, UKYP, voters
