March 26
Lenny gets to the heart of things with what conclusion should be drawn from the march: It was something that I haven’t really seen en masse before. It was something that some people had written off....
View ArticleNo to AV: cake now rather than cake later
Or, any benefits of getting AV are speculative, but destroying Clegg’s career is an immediate payoff: It seems to me that the AV system itself is highly unattractive, that all the possible benefits...
View ArticleYet Clegg does speak Dutch…
Daniel Davies analyses the LibDem’s failings: This is, to a large extent, why the vote share has collapsed. The median LibDem voter between about 2002 and 2010 was quite likely someone who believed...
View ArticleYour Happening World (20)
The perfect Daily Express cover. “Labour is facing a deep crisis that threatens its survival as a party of power, Ed Milibandwill be warned, on Wednesday as he is told to avoid the “politics of...
View ArticleLabour’s strategy: don’t oppose
Lenny riffs on Dan Hind’s observations on the need to break the ConDem coalition before the next election, and Labour’s role in this: I would guess he rightly judges Labour’s position, which is that...
View ArticleHere’s your fucking welfare reform
So you’re somebody with a disability who thanks to a bit of support from the government is still able to work and keep yourself going; you’re not doing brilliantly well perhaps but you cope. And then...
View ArticleLazy Friday picture post
Three funny tumblr picture blogs found this week: get out of there cat. you are not a head of lettuce. i cannot use you to make salad and you certainly will not taste good covered in ranch dressing....
View ArticleThe Great Law ‘N Order Swindle
At Blood & Treasure they’re discussing Nadine Dorris latest attempt to force her own socalled morality on England and how the economic realities the coalition is enforcing on the country actually...
View ArticleMeanwhile, outside the Olympic opening ceremony
Members of Critical Mass are being kettled by the police. Protest is not allowed during the London 2012 Olympics.
View Article‘write it on a piece of paper and stick it through a letterbox’
A fascinating elections wonk article by mark Pack on the history of the LibDem approach to campaigning: Central to this inheritance for the Liberal Democrats was the role of leaflets. If one image can...
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