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Cracks in the ANC this month have bought the historic party many column inches in South Africa, but it was the cracks in a certain chair on prime time TV which brought the group world wide attention last week – for all the wrong reasons.
The as it turns out puntastically-titled chairman of finance for the ANC [...]
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Tags: anc, Nhlanhla Nene, south africa
Free To Be Moderate
News comes today that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is upscaling measures to prevent those with extreme views entering the UK.
This scheme is no doubt a vote-winning policy, intended to play on the latent fears of terrorists a large number of Brits harbour, all too often backed up by a latent mistrust of the Muslim community [...]
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Tags: David Irvine, extremists, Jacqui Smith
Did anyone really believe that having Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama as president and vice-president (in whatever combination) was a sound proposition?It was inherently flawed for countless reasons; primarily, the two were opponents and had spent the best part of five months highlighting each other’s Achilles heels. Clinton had portrayed her Democrat rival as an [...]
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When it’s your job to sit around and dream up inventive policies to help northern economies, you think you’d manage to come up with something a little better than ‘abandon ship’.
Not if you work for David Cameron’s (old) favourite think tank Policy Exchange. The charity (thank god they don’t make money for this kind [...]
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Tags: policy exchange. david cameron
Fraser Nelson’s Spectator blog is one I rarely miss. For all the wrong reasons. Previously he has championed Tory MP Liam Fox’s boast that he didn’t come into power to “run public services better than the socialists” and today he starts his entry with ‘There’s Nothing to Say Labour Will Ever Win Power Again‘.
While technically, [...]
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Tags: conservative, David Cameron, fraser nelson, labour party, politics
Tory candidate Ian Oakley today defended his terrorisation of his Liberal Democratic rival with a series of silent phones calls and lesbian literature.
Oakley, aged 31 of West Drayton, said that he had embarked on the campaign of hate in order to “change the political landscape of Watford”.
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Tags: Add new tag, conservatives, ian oakley, lib dems, liberal democrats, tory
The enigma of Zuma-gate
Judging another nation’s politics is always a tricky business. One’s perception is always coloured by the political order in their nation and the coordinates of wrong and right that their culture has instilled. The heavily contrasting reactions of the West and Africa to the debacle that is currently Zimbabwe illustrates this perfectly.
However, when it comes [...]
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How deep is your politic?
Gordon’s got to go. That seems to be the general consensus in political circles now, raising the question who will be his successor? Two obvious candidates have emerged: David Miliband and Harriet Harman.
My gut instinct is to run with Miliband, but on consideration I’m not sure I can articulate a valid argument for my [...]
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Really, there isn’t much intelligent analysis that can be wrung out of this story. But I decided to write about it because it is bloody funny.
Yesterday, the esteemed Tory leader was merrily cycling home when he decided to stop off at a shop on Portobello Road to pick up some nibbles for supper. His first [...]
Filed under: David Cameron, conservatives, cycling, politics | 2 Comments
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