The Plashing Vole

I've largely kept my own counsel about the Labour Party leadership election . It's proving so divisive, and the arguments are so ted...

One of the interesting things about postmodernism is that with language and meaning sundered, anyone can appropriate it for their own purpos...

Yesterday I emailed my prospective Labour Parliamentary Candidates about their platforms. You can read it here . Today I got a reply from...

The latest Labour leadership wheeze is to open important party decisions to non-party members, including the election of party leaders. It...

I can confidently proclaim a 100% majority for Labour and Yes to AV in the Dark Place. I know this because this is how I voted, and I was fi...

You can rely on the right to get trains running on time, even if they are heading towards death camps. Unfortunately, we on the left couldn...

Unfortunately, only in The Dark Place , where the Tory-Lib Dem coalition has been spreading misery and wasting resources for quite some time...

Time to tear myself away from the office, where I've been working, while keeping an eye on the Labour Party leadership hustings  and the...

" I won't get out of bed for less than $10k " per day                                                                   ...

An election approaches, folks. Here's Labour's latest puntastic effort:

And as usual, for the wrong reasons… Today saw a march by the latest bunch of fascists, the English Defence League (weirdly, there's a...

Gordon Brown, knowing he's going to lose the election even if Jesus appears for the Second Coming and will only speak to the Prime Minis...

Not the most thrilling story for most of you, I admit, but they had a general election in the Nordic Paradise on Monday. The ruling (in coal...

The land of Alan Partridge voted in a 27 year old lobbyist and management consultant Tory, Chloe Smith , after their honest, learned, decen...

You won't be hearing from me much today - meetings, across two campuses - will take up my time. Should be fun though: one's on resea...

I won't be around much today - 2 four-hour meetings to check every student's grade. What joy that will be. Meanwhile, contemplate th...

Again, a buffoon I never rated has come out fighting : here's an extract (and yes, I'm afraid today will be politics-heavy). But whi...

…is an Irish proverb. I voted at 7 a.m. today, partly because I had to be out of the house to get to Walsall anyway, and partly because I wa...

I'm getting hits from Canada and Algeria from people searching for Damian Mcbride. Hopefully they aren't from politicians wanting to...

Of all people, Alistair Campbell and John Prescott have decided they're the team to save the Labour Party! They're involved in a cam...