[PDF file]: […] of the dominance of the humanities. 14 or 15 or or or 16 despairs and concludes, as he predicted in 2015, that ‘If . . . the vote is to exit, it will be no good saying afterwards that “we didn’t understand what we were voting for”, the repeated complaint made by Eurosceptics about […]
[…] riot. Eventually, the Supreme Court effectively determined the result of the election by ruling in the Republican candidate’s favour, and halting the ongoing attempts to recount the vote. Twenty-one years later, it nearly happened all over again. Except, in most ways, it was much worse. The Republican Party’s agitations in Florida in 2000 had […]
[…] the floor lies with the EU. Which creates a curious dilemma for me. I think the EU is absurd, a menace in many ways, and I would vote for UK withdrawal – were it not for the fact that the threat posed by the banksters is greater than that posed by the Eurocrats’ delusory […]
[PDF file]: […] the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words […]
[PDF file]: […] enthusiastic crowd are chanting ‘Drop dead, media’ while they wait for the great man to appear. She looks around and spots a new T-shirt: SHE’S A CUNT, VOTE TRUMP. The man wearing it ‘is with his wife and three kids’.1 Support for Trump seems completely unaffected by his boasting of how he has routinely […]
[PDF file]: […] take the pound out of the European exchange rate mechanism.44 After that recession Blair and Brown had no need to embrace Thatcherism: the electorate were going to vote for them whatever they proposed. The three big economic messes which the electorate took notice of between 1970 and 2007/8 were caused by Conservative governments; and […]
[PDF file]: […] again, he seems to have a somewhat rosy view of the past. The Conservative Party did not begin electing its leader until 1965, when MPs got to vote; and 1998, when ordinary party members got a vote – and even now those members have to choose from candidates chosen by the MPs. As for […]
[…] the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words […]
