The Leeds post on Savile required subtlety; it dealt with things like culture and class that only work that way. So what about Broadmoor, the asylum where the Tories put the psychopath in charge? Well, Leeds was about the things nobody was willing to say. As we will shortly see, Broadmoor was about precisely the…
Read More Tories and thugs (#Savile warning)I fucking told you. Eric Pickles has signed up for the deeply dodgy Create Streets agenda, on the basis of a report drawn up by a bunch of estate agents. On which planet isn’t this an outrageous conflict of interest? Also, he wants to get rid of terribad concrete towers through….system building. But Mr Pickles…
Read More DEMOLISH ALL THE THINGS.MySociety has produced a map of Viking placenames in the UK. Eoin Clarke has produced a map of cuts on a ward by ward basis: And the Tories wonder why the North of England is a No-Go area for the Nasty Party. pic.twitter.com/l498nrqyNR — Eoin Clarke (@DrEoinCl) April 7, 2014 Is there something we should…
Read More The real Tory agendaSo I said you could hide a million-strong dole queue with enough bogus hairdressing and then it totally like happened. Shift in jobs market in 6 months incredible: on experimental ONS monthly figs 8% Aug (stuck for 4 yrs) to 6.6% in Feb pic.twitter.com/SFdhaLq0bn — Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) April 16, 2014 Discussion follows. Fortunately it’s…
Read More sidewalk social scientist don’t get no satisfaction..So, it’s well known that I’m an obsessive about Create Streets, the flaky Tory wanktank that wants a whole succession of gimmes for developers who are in no sense their mates, except when they are. Single Aspect notes that the Urban Design Group is having a thing on Wednesday the 23rd of April, i.e next…
Read More Your chance to meet Create Streets.I find it both reassuring, and intensely funny, that after all the effort to get rid of the Secretary of State for Health’s duty to provide an NHS, top NHS officials are now moaning that Jeremy Hunt is micromanaging them. Sir Bruce Keogh can probably handle being micromanaged by someone like Hunt, and in general,…
Read More The system has won, and damn right too@yorksranter On the one hand, it seems bonkers. On the other, the Mail's reaction explains why he did it… — Stian Westlake (@stianwestlake) April 6, 2014 We refer of course to this Daily Hell story, in which best mate of Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, David Cameron, is supposedly astonished and deeply shocked to hear…
Read More Check the meetings register in a month’s timeSo, down goes DCMS Secretary Maria Miller. Paul Lewis explains, with 140-character concision. Flipping – buy cheap home in constituency. Say London home is 2nd so expenses pay mortgage. Tell HMRC London home is main so no CGT on sale. — Paul Lewis (@paullewismoney) April 9, 2014 It’s probably time to delve into the archive…
Read More If Miller goes, so must Osborne.Being a Salmagundi from the Talking-Pointes of the late Sieur Davide du Camerone, Gentleman of the Privy and Counsellier upon the Fourth Estate to his most Catholic Majesty, the late King Louis XVI An unexpectedly large forecast error in the Budget leads Finance Minister Necker to call an emergency Estates-General: We’re all in this together.…
Read More Dave from PR in the French RevolutionI seem to remember having said I worried about this government’s response to a major crisis like the floods of 2007. The current situation shows all the basic flaws in the government. Our key source for this post is the Daily Hell. First up, we have the lack of administrative grip. This lot are routinely…
Read More So we found out how the coalition would perform in a crisis