The Battle of Ideas is the annual shindig in London, enticing pundits from many esteemed British media groups, including the Economist, the BBC, and the Financial Times, who chew over the controversies of the day.
Continue reading →Is Jo Swinson racist and sexist?
I don’t usually go in for seeing bigotry in every passing comment, but Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson’s complaint that “six white men stuck in the past” are “conspiring to wreck our future” is bigoted, and worth criticising.
Continue reading →Podcast Ep. 145: Bercosaurus Rex Ponders Own Extinction
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This week we return to the Tories’ sustained ability not the deliver Brexit dead or alive, Extinction Rebellion’s commitment to disrupting Londoners’ commutes, and John Bercow’s successor – in a topic fittingly sidelined in favour of discussing the big man himself.
Joining us is Richard Hyman, a leave-voting financier of conservative inclination.
Image based on John Bercow during Barack Obama visit on 25 May 2011 by The White House
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A hopeful weekend could see defeat for the anti-democrats
For a leaver who took Tony Benn’s view that the EU was not democratic enough, the past few years have been dispiriting to witness.
Politicians’ gormless attempts to implement the result have been one part of this dreadful circus. But the less covered scandal has been the intellectual attacks on democracy, and on people’s rights to choose who and what governs them.
Continue reading →British poll workers have minimal means of detecting election fraud
While the Conservative government’s Queen’s speech has fairly been derided as an election broadcast by other means, one policy has been taken seriously: a pledge to introduce an ID requirement for voting in elections.
The Tories’ plans would bring England, Scotland and Wales in line with Northern Ireland, which already requires voters to present ID before they are given a ballot paper. The government has also said it would provide free ID cards to those that lack things like a driving licence – which remains a common alternative in a country that lacks national ID cards.
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