How To Lose

The election results have given me great cheer over the past few days. Just to see the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats get a fucking pasting has in itself been a wonderful experience. I would say I hated the former just that little bit more, but then again the Liberal Democrats sold the fuck out [...]

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Laffer Curves And Other Beautiful Lies

I was doing a little reading around the subject of income tax and pay scales, so naturally the Laffer Curve reared its ugly head again. I didn’t really want to get into all of that, because we could speculate as to the exact relationship between tax ordered and tax gained for an awful long time [...]

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On Your Bike…

Watching Prime Minister’s Questions this morning I was quite taken aback by the sheer callousness of both David Cameron and his wretched Defence Secretary Philip Hammond. In response to Mr. Miliband’s question as to what advice the Prime Minister would give to a married man with three kids, who was working 20 hours a week and was [...]

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Broad Street Broadcast

Tomorrow is the day upon which public sector strikes hit the country and I’m looking forward to being able to go out and show a little solidarity in Broad Street and elsewhere in Oxford as various groups combine to deliver a strong message to those spoilt Tory pricks that we’ve all had enough of having [...]

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The Freshly Stamped Tomorrow of Generation Z

I’ve done a little access and admissions work here in Oxford over the past month and when I say a little I mean I’ve done a couple of days and that’s been it; just so no one gets the wrong idea and thinks I’m trying to imply I’ve been slogging my guts out in order [...]

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Storytime

I used to think that politics was a pretty empty game, I had this belief that politicians tended to speak in dreary, vacuous sound bytes and that they knew as much about running the country as a specially trained garden snail but equally I thought that was just a bit twee as political beliefs go [...]

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Thou Shalt Not.

I found it laughable from the very start when the Conservatives promised a crackdown on QUANGO’s whilst simultaneously peddling their Big Society nonsense and promising to fund such cloud based castles with lost pocket money. I mean you had to wonder what the hell a group of people loosely associated with local authorities, partially funded [...]

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Promises, Promises.

Given the use of sport as a distraction from the vagaries of society and politics I wonder how long it’ll be before politicians begin to woo voters by promising them sporting success at a national level? Perhaps they’ll cut to the quick now they’ve realized that managing the economy is actually quite difficult and that [...]

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David Cameron Praises The Conservative Values Of Hostility, Shame, and Stigma

“It’s made us what we are today; a vicious collection of psychological car wrecks and emotional plane crashes“ sobbed the Tory leader before bursting into a flood of tears. Okay maybe this didn’t happen but why should that ever get in the way of it being published as a piece of news? Good Chaos this is the modus operandi [...]

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Goodbye To All That Then.

And lo’ the sorry saga of AV reform comes to a wretched, miserable close with an outright defeat for the Yes campaign and what you might call a resounding victory for the Status Quo. Cast deeper into the dark depths of utter political despair I’m really at quite a loss of what to do. Perhaps [...]

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