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What Can Gordo Do Now?

After today’s fresh disaster for Gordon Brown, with the resignation of a Minister of State, David Cairns, following on from a weekend of revolting Labour MPs , what can he do now?
As far as I can see, he has four main options:
1. Resign as PM as let the Labour Party try and sort itself out.
Somehow, [...]

It is time for Brown to end this farce: Politics Decoded by Garbo

Things have just changed gear
With less than a week to go until the start of the Labour party conference, the leadership debate has been ratcheted up a notch or two. After a very quiet summer, that led the BBC’s Nick Robinson to say the leadership debate was dead, things have really started to get [...]

Gordon Brown will ask his Challengers this One Question: Cartoon by Gaping Void

Cartoon: Gaping Void

A more Efficient and Accountable NHS: Norman Lamb MP. Lib Dem Conference Sept 2008

Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary Norman Lamb MP outlines the need for a more efficient NHS and discusses plans to give directly elected local health boards powers to focus on the priorities in their area.

Labour 2008: A Dying Fish Flopping about in the Bottom of a Boat?

From the BBC:

The Labour Party has moved to see off an attempt by 12 rebel MPs to force a challenge to Gordon Brown’s leadership.
Its ruling National Executive Committee has rejected calls to get nomination forms sent out to all Labour MPs before next week’s party conference.

Whoever is trying to prevent any prospect of a Labour [...]

Cassilis is No More: A Paean to his Thoughtful Posting

According to cassilis.co.uk, Liam has hung up his keyboard.

If he has gone, it is a piccolo tragedy, as Cassilis was a distinctive and thoughtful voice in the blogosphere, and his Think Tank Roundup was one of the two or three most innovative initiatives of the last 12 months. It was also probably the only one [...]

Rumour And Teh Internets

The internet, says it’s [British] creator ‘needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science’.
Erm, why? People have brains. And, guess what, they can use them too!
People can check the veracity of sources on the internet. And, frankly, only an idiot would take something read in just one place on the ‘net - [...]