Posted in United States, Graham Linehan, UK Politics, US Politics, Health on Aug 16th, 2009 5 Comments »
Following on from Graham Linehan’s defence of the NHS - and by extension his attack on the American right and their absolute hatred of not-for-profit health care - here’s the great man himself talking with Channel Four.
(By the way, Twitter is to me what VHS was to my father. Apparently it’s all the rage […]
Posted in Georgia, NATO, Geography, War, US Politics, UK Politics, Russia on Aug 22nd, 2008 7 Comments »
The video below is taken from a stop the war coalition meeting in London, 14 August 2008. Mark Almond gives his analysis of the ongoing conflict. (and before anyone makes the joke, no, it’s not THAT Mark Almond.) This is from stopwar.org.uk:
MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus, provided the […]
Posted in Neo-liberalism, UK Politics, Progressive Democrats, History, politics/world on Jul 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
This clip dates from 1948, and was made to explain the welfare state to “Charley”, who thinks it’s all a “bleedin´waste of money.” The title is: “Charley’s March of Time.”
Enjoy.
Posted in UK Politics, Iraq, Middle East on Dec 6th, 2007 11 Comments »
So said Judge Peter Beaumont.
His words were to Samina Malik, a former Heathrow shop assistant, who was found guilty last month of writing poetry of such danger as to constitute a threat to the British state. Samina was a teenager when she wrote the poetry. The legislation fell under the British 2000 Terrorism Act. Here […]
Posted in UK Politics, Irish History, Property, politics/Ireland on Nov 15th, 2007 4 Comments »
Today’s Guardian contains a piece by Stuart Jeffries. In it he ponders the outcome of a successful push for Scottish independence. He writes that, post-independence, the most northerly point in Britain will no longer be in Scotland, of course, but, amazingly, in the Republic! Post-independence, the most northerly point of Britain will be Inishrahull island […]
Posted in Seanad Elections, UK Politics, Bertiegate, Bertie, Politics on Aug 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’m not a religious person but I have to admit that when I picked up Alastair Campbell’s Diaries in a bookshop recently and read how he felt depressed after his resignation (shortly after the death of the Government scientist David Kelly) but ‘not depressed enough to do what Kelly did’ I found myself uttering a […]
Posted in UK Politics, TonyBlair, Northern Ireland on Jul 9th, 2007 3 Comments »
Alistair Campbell’s much anticipated diary of his time as Communications Chief under Tony Blair has been published today. While Alistair decided not to serialize the book in any of the newspapers, despite lucrative offers, it’s reported that he received a £1 million advance and its already number 3 on the best seller list. So you […]