Scotland Yard requires budget cuts
What else can you say in response to the shocking but not all that surprising story in The Guardian of an undercover cop spying on environmental activists. Undercover policeman Mark Kennedy posed as “Mark Stone”, a professional climber and environmental [...]
The bullet we dodged – just
The size of the recently-announced spending cuts by the UK government is just flabbergasting. The Guardian’s summary lists all manner of huge cuts – not least, that the public sector workforce is expected to shrink by 490,000 over the next [...]
“The Special Relationship” – Blair Wars, Episode II
Courtesy of a Crikey giveaway, I went along to see a screening of The Special Relationship – a study of the political and personal relationship between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. While it’s a sequel in any strict sense, the [...]
Tory-Lib Dem coalition in UK
As ABC news reports, David Cameron as PM, Nick Clegg as deputy PM. Guardian live blog with the latest. It’s the middle of the night, London time, so we’ll probably have to wait for their morning for a lot more [...]
UK Labour death spiral
Four cabinet ministers in two days- that must be getting close to a record: The exchanges came on the eve of Thursday’s European Parliament and English local council elections, which are predicted to be a bloodbath for Labour – and [...]
Clean coal mandated in UK
It’s amazing what a crisis can prompt a government to do. Aside from having the gumption to increase tax on the richest to help pay for the massive deficits caused by the recession, British Labour has bitten the bullet on [...]
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