October 7, 2012

by 4 comments on "it’s personal, but not in a good way"

Anyway, so Tom “Boris Watch” Barry was having at the Grauniad’s Nicholas “He Said” Watt over thinking that Boris Johnson really is a frightfully nice chap. I responded, recapping a point I’ve made earlier, which is that Johnson skates because the national press doesn’t report London politics and the locals focus on their borough councils:…

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by 2 comments on "In which I write the piece on thinktanks Dsquared promised"

Here’s a story that throws light on a lot of things that are wrong with thinktanks, even the ones that have content beyond just wanktanking. Neil O’Brien has advice for the Tories. O’Brien observes that only rich people, and specifically rich people from southern England, want to vote Conservative, and that this is not enough…

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