Category: Politics
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Well, a strong sense of déjà vu for those of us old enough to remember the 1992 General Election. Then, as now, a significant number of people seem to have told the opinion pollsters that they intended to vote Labour (or Liberal Democrat), only to choose the Conservatives when they went to the Polling Station.…
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I have read this several times, but I still don’t understand. Aren’t all leading Conservative politicians in the UK also Tories? Seeking the Right Way to Win: Why Conservatives on Both Sides of the Atlantic Are in Crisis By ANDREW GIMSON | Time Magazine | Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 Conservatives on both sides of the…
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Two weeks ago, the SCMP published this ridiculous letter: Voting rights don’t include secession Virginia Yue (‘We should respect voters’ choice,’ January 30), in her reply to my letter (‘Small-circle election for us, please’, January 20), can be forgiven for being unaware that universal suffrage can be in the form of indirect election or direct…
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Sky News have been making the most of the lengthy post-election negotiations, and they even have (or had) a helicopter flying around London to try to make it all more exciting. On Monday when Gordon Brown was making his first resignation speech of the week you could clearly hear it overhead. It was a curious…
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The Sun really is a ridiculous newspaper. Their front page today has this nonsense about a ‘Brown Monday’: DEFEATED Gordon Brown yesterday sparked fears of a City meltdown after trying to hijack a Tory-Lib Dem deal for a unity government. His bid to rise from the dead by persuading the Lib Dems to prop him…
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Sky News presenter to Lord Adonis, the transport minister, about the volcanic ash problem: “Do you have a contingency plan for this unprecedented state of affairs” Adonis just ignored the question.
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I think the SCMP only employ Lau Nai-keung to annoy people (or maybe he pays them to publish the nonsense he writes). Today he gives us the theory that the Western media are just jealous of China (Fakes offend Chinese as much as anyone – subscription required): After the grand opening of the Beijing Olympics,…
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Gotta love it when they get it so spectacularly wrong. This morning (Hong Kong time) it seemed like a done deal – Barack Obama’s convincing victory in the New Hampshire primary was very bad news for Hillary Clinton. Then over the next few hours the headlines changed, first pointing to a dead heat and then…
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About six months ago I was hoping that the the problems in Thailand would get resolved peacefully. It now rather looks as if they will be, but only because the military have staged a coup and ousted Thaksin Shinawatra, the democratically elected prime minister. Which wasn’t really what I had in mind as an ideal outcome. And yet… One…
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What on earth is going on in Thailand? Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was criticized for retaining ownership of Shin Corp. So he sold it, but his opponents complained that he had sold it to a Singaporean company and not paid tax on the proceeds. They stepped up their campaign to make him resign, and Thaksin…
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