As promised!

Sorry, this post is going to be a bit massive. Like I said I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, and since I started it I’ve been delayed by swine flu and #freeBevaniteEllie and stuff.
In the couple of months since I was last regularly blogging, I have…
- been listening to a lot of Lily [...]

Rabnawaz Akbar on last night’s results

My local Labour candidate Rabnawaz emailed round this morning with this moving personal response to last night’s results, and was kind enough to let me re-post it here.
At about 2.00am in the morning (we were there since 7.00pm) once word was out that the BNP had won a seat in this region, I was like [...]

What Grace and friends have been up to lately (every blog post could be titled this, really, couldn’t it?)

A good friend of mine has spent part of this week arguing, over the internet, with some of the more opinionated and right-wing students at his university, which is full of opinionated and/or right wing students. (Yeah, that one.) I’m not going to go into the details of the argument because it makes me upset [...]

Going (back and) Fourth

Since it’s been a relatively quiet Bank Holiday Weekend for news – civilisation hasn’t yet descended into chaos at the hands of swine flu; no-one unusual-looking has proved unexpectedly talented at singing showtunes on telly - rather a lot of coverage has been given to various senior Labour figures bitching about the leadership, each other, and [...]

Unusual amounts of campaigning for one so lazy

Hello all, sorry for neglecting you recently…it is kinda because I have a job now!! I’ve not been doing anything too interesting at the CAB just yet though – just taking it all in – so I won’t inflict any Tales from Grace’s Job on you yet.
I will, however, do my best to impress you [...]

Moston featured in Radio 4’s The Report

The Report last night on Radio 4 was on the Nick Griffin’s chances in the Euro elections, with a feature on Moston as a ‘dress rehearsal’ for June’s vote. Interesting to hear how Sir Richard predicted the vote would go – obviously no-one predicted quite how many votes the BNP would get, but we didn’t [...]

Excellent energy news from Europe

When I was working at Community Legal Advice (I’m gonna keep linking to that, ‘cos it’s a useful place to get help if you’re having issues with your bank/landlord/boss) and people called about problems with debt, I would ask them about all their expenses to check for any debts they hadn’t mentioned. If debt collectors [...]

The best reason to care about the European elections

I seem to have been using this blog as a political confessional rather a lot lately, so here’s another guilty admission for you: I find it really difficult to get interested in European politics. I do. I know it’s lazy, and I know the goings-on in the European parliament are often far more important than [...]