Tony Blair’s decision to change the composition of his cabinet has generally been termed a reshuffle – the same term as from card games. You get your cards – your ministers – and you mix them up. Yet when you look at today’s changes, it’s actually more of a case...
More excellent news is that a good friend Miranda Grell has managed to win her seat to be a Councillor in Leyton, in the borough of Waltham Forest. I’m not sure how much it contributed to the victory, but I did at least make this website for her campaign. Again,...
There was some good news in the local elections yesterday: Labour managed to reclaim control of Lambeth Council. In Ferndale ward where I live – and where I delivered so many rounds of leaflets we managed to boost the percentage of Labour support and held on to the 3 seats....
The BBC has just announced that Margaret Beckett will be the new Foreign Secretary in Tony Blair’s post-Local Elections reshuffle. I am absolutely baffled by this decision. Beckett is really quite an old stager – she has held a number of cabinet posts and most recently Secretary of State for...
Tomorrow is local elections day in many parts of the UK, and all boroughs councils in London are up for re-election. This has meant over the last few months that I have been given many thousands of moribund leaflets to deliver to the streets around where I live. I have...
He gained the nickname 2 jags for driving 200 yards in a Jaguar, then 2 jabs for lashing out at a protestor who threw and egg at him. Now the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been labelled ‘2 shags’ by the Daily Mirror, having admitted to having an affair....
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has found herself embroiled in a bitter dispute over job cuts in the National Health Service in the last week. Everyone is crying foul – patients, the Unions, the nurses (all BBC links) – but what is actually going on and who is to blame for...
A new Rough Guide to England has just been published, and understandably it does not mince its words, saying that talking to strangers, especially in London, “can be seen as tantamount to physical assault“. As a resident of London that strikes me as very close to the truth! I have...
In the best tradition of UK election campaigns, Labour has come up with Dave the Chameleon, an amusing campaign that aims to show that Tory leader David Cameron says he’s conservative but changes his colours to suit. When you see it first it looks quite fun, but then if you...
The somewhat twisted debate in the USA about the impact of religion in healthcare goes on – so much so that one of America’s best known academic institutions – Harvard University – has entered the fray to try to give a definitive answer to whether people praying for them helps...
I was so tired today on the train out of London that I had to read Metro just to keep myself awake. I normally avoid the horrid free rag produced by the Daily Mail group, but I actually came across something interesting in it today. Ken Livingstone is having a...
