Hello and welcome to this week’s roundup! I hope you are not too sleep deprived from this spring forward nonsense. I am writing this very late on Saturday night, and I’m worried that I won’t get to sleep until around 6am (because I am bad at sleeping in general, not just because I’m writing this)! […]
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March 2008
An unholy union for Scotland, a financial hell for everyone else.
A slow news week had me sifting through the tumbleweed and potentially grasping at straws. What with Tartan Hero taking a well-earned break and Kezia Dugdale with too much on her plate to blog properly for now, there was a chance it would be slim pickings in the run up to Easter. Thankfully, Iain Dale helped […]
Swearing, but not swearing allegiance
Hi folks! It’s amazing what gets people wound up these days. Lord Goldsmith suggests that there should be an Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in Schools, and foom! The whole blogosphere goes up. Michael Greenwell, BellgroveBelle, Malc, Louise, This is Alba, Ewan Watt, Ewan Aitken and Bill Cameron all line up to attack Lord […]
Democracy, white working class people, and 99% of the population all under assault
Welcome to this week’s roundup! I decided to write this week’s roundup as well since I had so many weeks off. From next week onwards it’s back to the normal routine. There was much derision in the blogosphere about the Lib Dems’ decision to abstain in a Commons vote on the Lisbon Treaty. By Richard […]
A non-toff snout in the trough
Hello, and welcome to this week’s roundup! It’s been a good few weeks since I’ve edited the roundup, so I should say thanks to Will for doing such a great job holding the fort over the past couple of months, particularly amid some perplexing technical issues. Headline of the week comes from the aedjt (is […]