Normal people don’t care about politics
By Conor Pope / @ConorPope On the first evening of living in halls of residence at university, me…
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The Dark Newt Rises
By Conor Pope / @conorpope It’s the early hours of Friday, October 22nd 2010 and the announcement has…
Boredom and waiting – interrupted only by fleeting moments of happiness
By Conor Pope / @conorpope On Wednesday, I was at the arrivals lounge of Heathrow Airport, as made…
I spit on its grave
By Conor Pope / @conorpope In one scene of the mid-nineties indie film Clerks, the two main characters…
The pretenders
By Conor Pope / @conorpope Late on Saturday night I got a text excitedly saying that I should…
A statue for Brian Haw? Of course not
By Conor Pope / @conorpope For a few short years, I was the manager of the Ukrainian football…
Philip Davies MP – the world shudders with indifference
By Conor Pope / @conorpope Andy Cole retired from international football in 2002. He had played only fifteen…
A Blairite conspiracy? Unlikely…
By Conor Pope / @conorpope I was reminded, amidst all the “revelations” this week, of the Labour leadership…
The honeymoon is over
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A new tax rate for moaning celebrities
By Conor Pope / @conorpope I’ve long been unsure about the 50% top tax rate as a permanent…
