Mehdi Hasan’s polemical take on politics, economics and foreign affairs
There were alternatives to this full-blown coalition of convenience with the Tories.
Do you remember Margaret Thatcher's slogan "There is no alternative" (aka "Tina")?
In recent days, I've clashed with Liberal Democrat MPs -- from the unconvincing and uncomfortable Simon Hughes to the pompous and prickly Greg Mulholland -- who have pushed the Tina line in order to defend the indefensible: their opportunistic coalition of convenience with Cameron's ... read more
This is the great betrayal. There is no other way to put it.
Did anyone see TweedleCam and TweedleClegg on the doorstep of Downing Street? I'm glad I didn't have breakfast this morning. Otherwise, I think I'd have been sick by now. (By the way, will their private secretaries be able to tell them apart?)
Nick Clegg -- the former aide to the Tory Eurocrat Leon Brittan and a former member of the Cambridge ... read more
Challenging the “narrative” that is emerging . . .
Can we take a step back, please? And consider some of the claims that are being made right now by politicians and pundits alike?
1) The Tories are claiming that they "won". This is nonsense. In a hung parliament, by definition, no party can claim "victory". In the British system, you win only when you have a majority in the Commons. Cameron failed to get one.
2) A Lab-Lib coalition government would ... read more
So should Brown go for a March election?
Regular readers of the magazine, and of the NS blogs, will be aware that my colleague James Macintyre and I have been banging on for a while about the "soft" Tory lead and the muddled media's desire to crown Cameron now, rather than wait for the verdict of a general election next year. We've long predicted that the Tory poll lead will shrink, that Brown's performances will improve ... read more
New ComRes poll puts the Tories on 37 per cent
To believe, as I have, for several months now, that the next general election could result in a hung parliament is a "partisan belief", according to the Tory blogger Iain Dale.
Really? Tell that to the pollsters at ComRes, who have a new survey in today's Independent putting the Tories on 37 per cent (down 3 points on last month), Labour on 27 per cent (no change), ... read more
The United States is in a deep financial malaise because of suffocating private and state debt that's also true. Taxes need to increase, state spending massively reduced, Foreign wars can no longer...
From Federico, 15 February 08:08
Maybe black male culture became obsessed with 'bling' because most blacks were unable to get decent jobs, were consigned to 'ghettoes' were they were statistically.. fucked. And maybe at least...
From Federico, 15 February 08:07
4.6 million live in the real ireland hughy thats the south to you.
From ben, 15 February 02:07
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