My favourite TV programme of all time is Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Thick Of it’. This goes way beyond comedy into the realms of pure genius. When I watch an episode – even if I have watched it a dozen time before, I roar with laughter. But here’s the thing, there are no jokes. This is all serious stuff. Does anybody not…
Month: March 2015
The eyes and ears of democracy
Conspiracy theory or awakening – you decide. During the referendum we were out every day knocking on doors, meeting people in the streets attending public meetings and linking up with other branches who were doing the same. By the 17 September we were very confident of a win but more than that, we were confident of a very substantial win.…
No excuses
Maybe I am being unkind but this is too important not to say. Many pensioners voted for the Union in the referendum because they were afraid for their pensions, that was the big one. There were other reasons but that was the big one. Stoked up by people like Murphy, the same pensioners are voting Labour because now Murphy and…
In the blue corner …. in the other blue corner …
I said I wouldn’t do it but, like a car crash, I just had to watch the Miliband v Cameron debate debacle. One commentator summed it up nicely with an analogy: it was like 2 boxers in separate rings with one referee? So what did we learn for our investment of over an hour and half of tele time? First of…