Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Man Bites Dog

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As sure as night follows day, online disputes follow a mass-shooting or terrorist attack. They almost invariably follow a very predictable p...
Saturday, 10 October 2015

GOP Truthiness on Syria

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I don't know where to begin with this, though a warning that it was going to be tripe was contained in the rhetorical flourish at the en...
Friday, 9 October 2015

Single Transferable Vote 101 (or, why no-one in Britain knows how to report it properly and what they can do about it)

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I am a fan of the Single Transferable Vote as a voting system. Being from Northern Ireland and having lived in the Republic of Ireland, I ha...
Wednesday, 30 September 2015

The UK's Trident "debate"

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Very quickly, because it is not very difficult. The new British Labour Party leader has sparked off a row over comments that he wouldn'...

The Sneaking Regarders of Dixie

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A culture that believes that it is somehow acceptable to fly the Confederate Battle Flag outside the state capitol, having been forced t...
Thursday, 14 May 2015

Marriage Equality in Ireland

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Friday, 27 March 2015

Which Lib Dems voted to (essentially) defenestrate Bercow?

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In case you were wondering, by my reckoning four Liberal Democrat MPs voted for the Hague / Gove "student union politics" move tha...
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Sunday, 15 March 2015

Do Scotland's Tories Know on Which Side Their Bread is Buttered?

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Alex Massie has a great piece in The Spectator on ' Why an SNP Surge at Westminster Could Mean the End of Britain '. I recommend yo...
Thursday, 5 March 2015

Dear Snow...

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Dear snow, I know that when we first met I was young and pretty impressionable -- looking back I was so naive -- but I fell in love wit...
Wednesday, 10 December 2014

State's Appeal Against Pistorius Murder Acquittal Allowed

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In a welcome move, at least for those of us who had serious concerns about how Judge Masipa dealt with dolus eventualis in the Oscar Pistori...