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By-election junky Davis refuses to acknowledge victory in Haltemprice and Howden 11 Jul 2008 | 08:05 pm
In spite of being told by-election officials that he won with a massive majority of the vote, David Davis, MP, has refused to acknowledge the end of the Haltemprice and Howden by-election and vowed to...
An honest appeal for an intelligent discussion of immigration – Part 3 of 3 11 Jul 2008 | 07:33 pm
For all my lamentations about the hegemony of the economic perspective, too little has been said about the class implications of mass immigration. One of the things that strikes me forcibly here is th...
An honest appeal for an intelligent discussion of immigration – Part 3 of 3 11 Jul 2008 | 03:33 pm
For all my lamentations about the hegemony of the economic perspective, too little has been said about the class implications of mass immigration. One of the things that strikes me forcibly here is th...
An honest appeal for an intelligent discussion of immigration – Part 2 of 3 11 Jul 2008 | 08:45 am
Well, it has to be a debate about what sort of country Britain is, and what sort of country we want it to be. It has to be a self-conscious engagement with the idea of Britain, the nature of the natio...
An honest appeal for an intelligent discussion of immigration – Part 2 of 3 11 Jul 2008 | 04:45 am
Well, it has to be a debate about what sort of country Britain is, and what sort of country we want it to be. It has to be a self-conscious engagement with the idea of Britain, the nature of the natio...
An honest appeal for an intelligent discussion of immigration – Part 1 of 3 10 Jul 2008 | 08:12 am
Thus far the debate which the great social, economic and phenomenological change of our time has provoked has been facile, simplistic, narrow, shallow. The great transformative process of immigration ...
An honest appeal for an intelligent discussion of immigration – Part 1 of 3 10 Jul 2008 | 04:12 am
Thus far the debate which the great social, economic and phenomenological change of our time has provoked has been facile, simplistic, narrow, shallow. The great transformative process of immigration ...
Gordon Brown and the colonialist path to social mobility 9 Jul 2008 | 09:10 am
A couple of weeks ago Gordon Brown gave a heavily covered speech on social mobility. For once the media didn’t round on him and tear him to pieces – principally because he was doing what the commentar...
How about Ken Livingstone for Glasgow East? 7 Jul 2008 | 08:49 pm
However you want to characterise my blog, it isn’t a political rumour mill. I don’t hear whispers in Westminster corridors from disgruntled backbenchers and inebriated ministers; no one ever leaks me ...
Did Nadal beat the real Federer? Or an ersatz Federer? 7 Jul 2008 | 08:40 am
Nadal has done it – he’s the new Wimbledon Champion. It was a superlative tennis match. What an affirmation of sport and what an affirmation of tennis as the supreme spectator sport. I should clear u...
