Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Gay Marriage Flowchart
Or at least, the arguments for and against gay marriage, displayed in flowchart-ish format by pfarley.
Filed under: LBGT, Politics | 3 Comments
Tags: Flowcharts, Gay Marriage, Gay rights, Graphs, LBGTQ, Same-sex Marriage
Giving hate the finger
I haven’t posted yet about Proposition 8 being upheld. It took me some time to get my head around my reaction to it. I’m not a US citizen nor an expert on constitutional law. So when smarter people than I tell me that there were some good reasons behind the proposition being upheld, I know […]
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Tags: a blog, Alas, California, Homophobia, LBGTQ, Lily Allen, Proposition 8
Nick Griffin’s England
It turns out the BNP has a manual – a book of Hate for Dummies, if you will. And someone leaked it to the BBC. BNP activists and writers should never refer to ‘black Britons’ or ‘Asian Britons’ etc, for the simple reason that such persons do not exist”. Now defining British nationality is tricky, […]
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Tags: BNP, Britain, Nick Griffin, Racism, UK Politics
The incredible shrinking tax
The Guardian has put together some word clouds for the Budget speeches for the years 1998-2009 (i.e. the speeches given by Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling as Chancellors). The more frequently a word is used in the speech, the bigger it appears in the cloud. It makes for interesting glancing for those of us who […]
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Tags: Alistair Darling, Budget, Budget 2009, Budget Speech, Darling, Economy, Speeches as Graphics, The Guardian, Word Clouds
Gordon Brown would have welcomed headlines pointing out that yesterday’s results were a victory for the Labour government. David Cameron would have liked them to emphasise that the vote was won by pressure, promises and concessions on other issues to anyone who wanted them. I don’t think either of them wanted this. David Davis’s resignation […]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, In the News, Politics | 2 Comments
Tags: 42 Days, Civil Liberties, David Cameron, David Davis, Politics, The Sun, UK, UK Politics
That’s it, I’m leaving the UK
Except I can’t, because I already did. And I don’t believe the best way to solve problems is to abandon them, anyway. But there are days when I really, truly, wonder what the country is going to look like when I go back in a year or two. The bill to increase pre-charge detention limits […]
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Tags: 42 Days, Brown, Cameron, Civil Liberties, Diane Abbott, In the News, Jacqui Smith, Politics, UK Politics
What is her plan?
Obama has finally clinched it. Over the past few weeks, commentators have been saying that the Democratic nomination is his. But it would have been foolish for him to announce himself as candidate then, when there were still delegates in play. But today’s primary results (a win for Obama in Montana and Clinton in South […]
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Tags: Clinton, Election 2008, Obama, Politics, US Politics, USA
Why 42 days is too long
In the next couple of weeks, the House of Commons will vote on the Counter-Terrorism Bill. One of the Bill’s key points is the proposal to extend the period during which suspects can be held before they are charged from 28 days (the current limit) to 42 days. What does this actually mean? The figure […]
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Tags: 42 Days, Campaigns, Current Affairs, Parliament, Politics, Terrorism, UK Politics
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No-one is “just” a wife
On the Times website this week, Sarah Vine advances the theory that in order to become a successful politician, one needs a wife. Not in so many words, of course. But she might as well. The subheading of her article reads: You can tell a lot about a politician by which of the two types […]
Filed under: Comment on Comment, Politics, Women | 1 Comment
Tags: Carla Bruni, Marriage, Michelle Obama, Politics, The Times, Women