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With so many intelligent cohesive web-sites around, what is there for stupid people—or people who love stupid people and stupid stuff, which is even intelligent people I’ll have you know—to do and think about? I mean, there’s Youtube, yes, and government web-sites with ridiculously outlandish claims, but they are hardly stupid-people exclusive, are they? No, aside from the BNP they are not. What I am talking about is this: a place where anything a stupid person / stupid loving Continua a leggere »

Political hardman, and spin doctor supreme, Alastair Campbell showed his emotional side today during a revealing interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr.

Alastair Campbell was communications chief at Number 10 during the Blair years and is traditionally remembered as the dark master of political spin, a modern day Machiavelli. It is widely believed that the ferocious Malcolm Tucker character in political satire ’The Thick Of It’ is closely based upon Campbell, and his rages at colleagues and the media have Continua a leggere »

Gordon Brown has announced a radical plan to reform the UK voting system. Electoral form is an old chestnut that rears its head from time to time, but in a move that has surprised Westminster it now seems that the Prime Minister will introduce the measures to the House of Commons as early as next week.

The current voting system has often been criticised as being unfair on smaller parties, and the Liberal Democrats always make proportional representation a keystone Continua a leggere »