It has come to this at last. After years of systematically sidelining and neutering the Labour Pary, Tony Blair has made his real views clear: that in order to achieve a third term of government, party members have to “give up the luxury of criticism.” Speaking to the party’s national policy forum, he finally admitted [...]
This is more of a “greatest hits” of the wrongdoings of the Bush administration than a chronological or systematic record. However, it is very effective at highlighting the most clatteringly huge injustices which have occurred. The first is, of course, that old favourite of Bush seizing power, untroubled by not actually having won the election. [...]
I went to see Bill Bailey at the Pavilion last night and have added a review under the “Live Entertainment” section. I was somewhat distracted from the show by being seated next to the most torn-faced woman I’ve ever seen: she didn’t crack a smile once, not even when Bill was playing Metallica on the [...]