Politics

1. I Voted

   5 May, 2005: Today, I voted. I’m in the mid­dle of a house move, I have a cold, I’ve not been sleep­ing well and I had a web­site to fin­ish build­ing that needed to be done before I lose inter­net access for a week or two, and I’m knack­ered. But still, I voted.

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2. Effective Opposition

   11 March, 2005: Back in 1997, I remem­ber that we were all so happy about Labour’s land­slide vic­tory in the Gen­eral Elec­tion. Hav­ing been born around the time that Thatcher was elected and liv­ing through that and the sub­se­quent Major admin­is­tra­tion, we’d lived our whole lives under Tory rule, so when the Gen­eral Elec­tion coin­cided with us all get­ting [...]

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3. Ken Livingstone

   18 February, 2005: Per­haps it’s all down to the 60th anniver­sary of the lib­er­a­tion of Auschwitz, but it seems that Nazism is very much back in the news. Our bonny Prince Harry started the ball rolling with his ill-advised Nazi arm­band cos­tume, and now Lon­don Mayor Ken Liv­ing­stone is in the spot­light for accus­ing a reporter of act­ing like [...]

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4. Kilroy Again

   4 December, 2004: There are times, just occa­sion­ally, when life gets it right.

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5. Every Soldier Named

   10 November, 2004: On Mon­day the 8th of Novem­ber, 2004, Pte Pita Tukatukawaqa died when a road­side bomb hit his vehi­cle, trav­el­ling out­side Camp Dog­wood, south-west of Bagh­dad. His death brought the total num­ber of fatal­i­ties among UK ser­vice per­son­nel in Iraq to 74.

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6. Lowercase Tee

   1 October, 2004: Being a fairly well-rounded, polit­i­cally and glob­ally aware modern-day sort of per­son, it’s not escaped my atten­tion that the Amer­i­cans are hav­ing some sort of elec­tion, which seems mildly extrav­a­gant to me, see­ing as they only just had one four years ago.

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7. Unbalance of Power

   9 September, 2004: ChangeThis have made avail­able a tran­script of a speech made by Al Gore to the Amer­i­can Con­sti­tu­tion Soci­ety for Law and Pol­icy at George­town Uni­ver­sity, Wash­ing­ton, on the insti­tu­tion­alised dis­hon­esty in the Bush admin­is­tra­tion. It’s long, but well-worth reading. Unbal­ance of Power, by Al Gore

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8. Daily Reasons

   13 July, 2004: Daily Rea­sons to Dis­patch Bush

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9. The Stop Bush Project

   18 June, 2004: The Stop Bush Project, a doc­u­men­ta­tion of anti-Bush sen­ti­ment from around the planet expressed through the medium of street art. http://stopbushproject.com/

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10. Kilroy

    14 June, 2004: Robert Kilroy-Silk was elected as an MEP in the East Mid­lands as his UK Inde­pen­dence Party looked on course for third place in the Euro­pean polls. BBC news article I weep for the future. Kil­roy, for cry­ing out loud. As if he wasn’t annoy­ing enough leer­ing over menopausal women at 9am every morn­ing, now he’s going to end [...]

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11. PM considers public smoking ban

    4 June, 2004: Tony Blair has said the gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing intro­duc­ing a ban on smok­ing in pub­lic places and will come to a view in the “next few months”. But the prime min­is­ter stressed it was “a dif­fi­cult bal­ance” pro­tect­ing the public’s health on the one hand and not being overly inter­fer­ing on the other. Read BBC news article Bans on smok­ing makes [...]

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