Style or substance?
KyrixLinxMay 24, 2010
Cant judge: but Cleggie affects 5-button cuff - WHO else has this quirkie, self-determined, obsolete design feature built in (at extra cost,...
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A Prayer for Hung Parliaments
KyrixLinxMay 08, 2010
A prayer for Hung Parliaments: Remember O Lord at this time The Gang of Four Who left Labour to create in Your Likeness the Social Democrats...
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Rant? What rant? All Quiet on the Westminster Front
KyrixLinxMay 08, 2010
Throughout the streets and green spaces of Westminster prevails a civilised air of calm discussion, orderly interviewing, measured comments ...
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Simple arithmetic, surely
KyrixLinxMay 07, 2010
How the journalistas do love it. How many ways can you play the maths and still miss the point? This was always the election not to win, why...
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Dust settling as a new day dawns
KyrixLinxMay 07, 2010
Its dust or volcanic ash, but the structured words are starting to come through the murky haze of election night seismic activity. Not much ...
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Election Day ephemera
KyrixLinxMay 06, 2010
Parliamentary pop-up waffle house in Soho: hot news on the restaurant front, just dropped on my dining table. Eager independents include Joh...
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The Cook Ingredient's the independent for you!
KyrixLinxMay 06, 2010
Follow the Cook Ingredient If this government has left you Browned off, stir fried, separated or curdled; and you have enjoyed visiting ...
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Europhobes: nice chap for Reading West
KyrixLinxMay 05, 2010
Amusing chat in the local Working Mens' Club with the UKIP candidate for Reading West, nice chap Bruce HAY, seems a shoe-in for the seat...
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Hang it all! Cleggism isnt Whiggery
KyrixLinxMay 04, 2010
Three days off with migraines - induced by screen-based stress from political overload. Three days of hear no evil, see no evil, speak no ev...
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POLITICAL BETTING TONIGHT
KyrixLinxApril 29, 2010
The third debate of the current series in the Modern Political Era is televised at 8pm tonight. Matchbet is running political betting tonigh...
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Punters' reaction to the Great Bigot Hole *
KyrixLinxApril 29, 2010
Wednesday afternoon, Labour went from 28/1 against getting an overall majority to 38/1 against. You didn't even need to hear the news of...
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The Secret Bigot
KyrixLinxApril 29, 2010
'Bigot' - what a splendid word to hit the Election scene. Ignore the merits or demerits of its use, and the sensitivities of the poo...
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The Internet rules - OK!
KyrixLinxApril 22, 2010
A day or two of quiet reflection, whilst all around the politicos fuss, fume and fumble. The shock/horror of the first episode of TV's n...
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Identity crisis hits poll credibility
KyrixLinxApril 19, 2010
Clegg poll boost 'blamed on voters' association with popular Tv soap figure'. Compo standing by for last minute intervention in...
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How DARE they call it Democracy
KyrixLinxApril 16, 2010
For me the single most important aspect of the whole "debate thing" is that Gordon (the Unelected) Brown has at last done somethin...
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Big grey cloud of Toxic Material explodes from Manchester
KyrixLinxApril 16, 2010
So what do we make of the Great 'Debate', bring back the Westminster roist-about, say I. Little heat, less light, no rows and shouti...
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It's live politics, folks! Tele at 8.15pm
KyrixLinxApril 15, 2010
The day's events of a politico-nature: Twitter swamped by tweets, maybe Icelandicash, can it be diddled depositors twittering helplessl...
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Tories hit the Magic 40+ poll rating
KyrixLinxApril 15, 2010
Swing high, swing low, that dashed elusive winning poll score tantalisingly sweeps into view, only to be swept away on the very next soundin...
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It's Manichean dualism, stupid!
KyrixLinxApril 14, 2010
Politics and economics, the two are inseparable, arent they? Well, not so sure: the economy is a basket case and yet the failed incumbent of...
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Snouts in the Trough, again
KyrixLinxMarch 31, 2010
All parties seek to retain the graft process: the Citizenry are required to vote about every five years and award their (irrevocable) proxy ...
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New balls, please
KyrixLinxMarch 30, 2010
Tennis hits the skids and now its up before Parliament. The All-Parliamentary Tennis Group, set up a while back to review (ie radically impr...
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Ask the Chancellors
KyrixLinxMarch 30, 2010
Mixed reactions to the new Channel 4 virtual reality show screened last night in its pilot format. In case you missed it, the plot is roughl...
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All-time 'lows' reported today, politics and more
KyrixLinxMarch 29, 2010
The public view of British politics, as reported in the press this weekend, is at an all-time low: YouGov : 49% of voters think that "...
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What's the point of Guido Fawkes?
KyrixLinxMarch 13, 2010
Guido Fawkes, the renowned political blogger and tweeter, scourge of MPs and re-publisher of reported shady Westminster dealings - distribut...
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Did Labour miss a trick in not calling for a confidence vote regarding the PM?
RichardJanuary 11, 2010
Can Labour win the next General Election with Gordon Brown? No, all the polling evidence, sentiment and feeling says they can't - pure a...
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MP's salaries? Let the public decide - on the ballot slip
RichardJanuary 03, 2010
The argument over MPs and their salaries in terms of what they deserve to be paid could be put to rest at the next general election. Why can...
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