Top 10 Funniest Political Posters
George W Bush Poster Tomato Slaves Graffiti is a crime Bush Palin Hip Hop Billboard Mixed messages? Speeding PETA's Save The Whales campaign Merkel 'cleveage' campaign poster You might want to proof-read that posterJim Devine Channel4 Interview – A Car Crash in Slow Motion
As I sat watching the Channel 4 interview with Jim Devine MP, one of the four politicians charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) with theft, it felt as if I were watching a car crash in slow motion. While Devine dug himself further into the pit that Krishnan Guru-Muthhy was laying out for him […]
BBC Bias
Once again the BBC’s Question Time has excluded a Lib Dem from being on the panel. How they can justify this in the week when the Iraq enquiry has given the public some interesting insights I do not know. I do know that the first thing TV researchers are taught is ‘get opposing views’ but […]
What a naval historian can teach Scottish politicians
In 1955 naval historian & former British civil serant Cyril Northcote Parkinson in an article for The Economist first articulated Parkinson’s Law which states: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. When I give someone a task to do I like to give them a short but achievable time limit […]
Locke’s Justification of the State
1. Introduction Recently the discussion of the role of the State has had a resurgence thanks in no small part to the indiscretions of some of our elected officials. This may have led to political journalists dusting off their copies of Locke, Hobbes and Hume in order to go back to answering the questions of […]