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 the vote for the first time, we used it, enjoyed using it, and were generally happy with the results.

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3. Ken Livingstone

   18 February, 2005:

   Perhaps it’s all down to the 60^th 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 a concentration camp guard.

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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

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/

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 up as some sort of terrifying perma-tanned dictator of England in a few years from now.

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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 me happy. I’m sure that there will be plenty of people to protest that this is a breach of their human rights, etc. etc., but frankly, fuck ‘em. I’m sick of having to breathe in other people’s smoke when standing at a bus stop, and walking downwind of someone, and when someone smokes near my office window, and when I’ve been outside, and when…