Simply Ed – holding back the sneers
It is rude to sneer. It’s also a bad idea. Sneering reduces vision: you can’t see clearly with…
Stefan Stern
Does anybody actually want to win?
Here’s what the Conservatives have done recently: Announced £7bn of unfunded tax cuts in their continued quest to…
Marathon man Murphy will have to learn how to sprint
“Some of you, I hear, support me simply because you think I can win.” That was the young…
Fortune is favouring Labour, again. It’s time to take advantage
Right, let’s get this straight. You can’t say “swamped”, but “under siege” is ok. “Swamped” should have been replaced…
Freud and the politics of cruelty
That story about the frog not noticing that the water it is sitting in is getting hotter and…
Conventional politics is stuck, stale and discredited
If politics is “show business for ugly people” it might be worth recalling the famous Hollywood dictum of…
Not a tax cut. A tax con
“In this election, as always, there is [a] choice. You can vote for our opponents, and watch them…
Tell us the truth, Ed
Next Sunday I will be attending a memorial service for Geoffrey Goodman, who died a year ago at…
Nostalgia: Britain’s (not so) secret weapon – and weakness
It was the gulp wot won it. That gulp you took when you heard or read this: “There…
Effing Tories and effing Labour…effing hell
In Scotland the nationalists have already won. That is not a prediction for Thursday’s referendum. Unless the No…
