Ways to cut the deficit without really trying, part 94: tax school fees
By VoteRedGoGreen Watching the Tory conference, I’m astonished by some of the contortions being made to cut the…
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The limits of No Platform
By VoteRedGoGreen I haven’t run this past the other comrades of the Paintbrush Collective yet, and I’m not…
Conservative la-la land: the top seven fictions swallowed by the right
By VoteRedGoGreen It has struck me recently that Conservatives – including even the huggable progressive types we’re apparently…
Progressive Porky Pies – fisking the new Tory video
By VoteRedGoGreen This is the Tories’ latest video. There’s been some comment on it elsewhere, notably from Luke…
Our housing policy must be coherent and fair – this is neither
By VoteRedGoGreen Oh dear. According to The Guardian, the Government’s new “local homes for local people” could leave…
The speech Gordon Brown should have made
By VoteRedGoGreen I’ve been thinking recently about the comparisions between the Credit Crunch and the post-9/11 crisis in…
Banking: it’ll make you go blind, you know?
By VoteRedGoGreen The beeb is reporting that Mervyn King and Alistair Darling are clashing over what needs to…
What’s right and what’s wrong
By VoteRedGoGreen It’s now two weeks since two regions of the UK voted to have Fascists represent them…
LabourList – mouthpiece, no; defender, yes!
By VoteRedGoGreen Alex Smith’s article on a “new direction” for LabourList is excellent, and is exactly the right…
Losing the vote on the Gurkhas may mean our decline is inexorable
By VoteRedGoGreen The Gurkha defeat doesn’t make for pleasant reading for those of us who delight in irritating…
