The Sun goes down on Cameron

I’ve temporarily misplaced the TV remote  for the flat where I’m staying this Conference, so can’t switch over from Sky News. And goodness me, what a load of self-promoting wank you get when one outpost of Murdoch’s empire reports ‘news’ created by another.
The theme I have seen coming up again and again at this Conference [...]

Banning things that should never have been allowed and allowing things that should never have been banned

This evening the Prime Minister has released a statement of posthumous apology to Alan Turing.
Turing was the father of modern computer science. In 1999 Time Magazine named Turing as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century for his role in the creation of the modern computer, stating: “The fact remains that everyone [...]

Kerry McCarthy, Labour’s Queen of Twitter

It’s been an evening of confusion in the grey area between old and new media – Mark Hanson has summed up pretty well what happened when the Guardian let slip something LabourList was supposed to tell us first. It’s almost as though Labour needs someone to coordinate our new media presence…oh, wait, what do you know [...]

Our doctors and nurses: an electoral bloc, says Hannan

Dan Hannan’s still off on his badmouthing-the-NHS-around-the-world tour, this time telling the Army & Navy Club in Washington that free healthcare (like what we’ve got) represents a ‘huge power grab by the state machine’. Someone give the boy a biscuit.
Hannan obviously departed this planet for MiltonFreedmanWorld long ago. Making sick people better, for no cost at the [...]

Manifestivities

As I mentioned last week, LabourList has been collating ‘New ideas for a renewed movement’ from tweets and emails sent in. I submitted a few on Wednesday, inspired by my day at work -
Scrap the different rates of NMW and benefits according to age. Being under 25 is no less expensive than being 25+.
Schools should [...]

Another post about Harriet Harman? I’m afraid so

Lindsey and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry yesterday, largely because that’s where they’re keeping some of the People’s History Museum’s displays until it reopens this autumn. (I’m very excited about this. I love the People’s History Museum. If you think you’re bored of hearing about it now, just imagine what I’ll [...]

Just a quick one…

…if you’re on Twitter, LabourList are taking suggestions by tweet for the manifesto. Tweet your ideas to @LabourList. (If you’re not on Twitter, you really need to sort yourself out.)

Tony Benn at the Bridgewater!

My latest e-newsletter from the People’s History Museum - due to re-open this autumn, and I’m counting the days! – informs me that Tony Benn has written the foreword to the museum’s forthcoming book with the University of Central Lancashire ‘The British Labour Movement and Imperialism’; and, even more excitingly, that there’s an Evening With Tony [...]

Afternoon pop pickers…

Someone from Blackburn Labour told me that all right-thinking bloggers were ignoring the silly Total Politics poll, so I didn’t vote.
Then all the other bloggers and Tweeters started listing the blogs they were voting for (ignoring Iain Dale’s instructions that we are not supposed to do this), and Tom Harris put Blackburn Labour at the [...]

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 [...]