Tag: election

  • Trump’s epic disdain

    Trump the innovator is back on the campaign trail, diagnosing and mocking his audiences. And they love it. — I can’t stop watching this video. It’s a random tiny clip…

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  • End of the line

    The Conservative Party is, famously, the most successful political party in history. — The party is a shape-shifting cockroach that’s survived the whole industrial era, the expansion of the franchise,…

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  • School governors. Representative or professional. Choose one.

    Last week I spent a few hours floor-walking at a Fair Field parents’ evening, drumming up interest in our parent governor vacancies (I’m chair of govs and a parent myself).…

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  • Oops…

    Thought I ought to be first to acknowledge the howler in the previous post. Turns out the debates were irrelevant. Made no difference. Caused not a ripple in the electoral…

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  • Shiny floor democracy

    I expected little of the debates. I thought they’d slot into the campaign like all the other more-or-less artificial election media gewgaws and gimmicks: like party leaders going on kids…

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