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giroscope: Darkness Falls
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/01/darkness-falls.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). One worthwhile accomplishment today was to join the distinguished list of people banned by one of mine (and most right- thinking peoples) bête noires, Richard J Murphy in being barred from his blog's comments sections for pointing out the absurdity of This post. Arguing that a 'Left wing filter was the only way the true intent of the six decades deceased economist could be viewed. With his assessment that the Tories still have a chance of winning the next Election.
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giroscope: Labour: the last post
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/08/labour-last-post.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Labour: the last post. This is, for the foreseeable future, the last post I will make on the Labour party (and it may well be the last ever giroscope post, before moving to the new Hello Underground Typewriter blog - which I will do sometime in late August). It's the end of an era in many ways. Ever since this blog was set up in 2006, around 50% of the posts, at least, have been about the Labour party, from a broadly sympathetic perspective. Thinks the same way I do:.
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giroscope: Chris Huhne - a few thoughts
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/02/chris-huhne-few-thoughts.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Chris Huhne - a few thoughts. The big story of the last couple of days (apart from the discovery of Richard III in a car park) is that Chris Huhne now faces a prison sentence after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice after getting his then-wife Vicky Pryce to take speeding points for him by pretending she was driving their car in 2003 when it was actually him driving it. A few rather random thoughts on this:. Apparently Huhne is the first ever.
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giroscope: Tribalism is for football fans - not politicians
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/01/tribalism-is-for-football-fans-not.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Tribalism is for football fans - not politicians. The catalyst for this post was a Facebook comment by my friend Chris Brooke of Virtual Stoa. Fame, but the issue has been bugging me for a while, so it's time to get to the bottom of whether political "tribalism" has any place in progressive politics. Chris's comment referred to a recent post on the soft-left Shifting Grounds. Blog by a variety of authors including Andy Harrop (director of the Fabian Society. Agreeem...
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giroscope: Who killed the netbook?
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/01/who-killed-netbook.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Who killed the netbook? Almost exactly 5 years ago on this blog, I asked whether Asus's Eee PC netbook was a Toshiba Libretto for the 2000s. And it turns out that it was for the late 2000s, but not for much longer in the - 2010s - the Guardian. Reports that most manufacturers have now stopped making netbooks. Windows. Now I'm confused about this and I follow computers pretty closely, so what chance have the general public got? Steve - I think theres something in tha...
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giroscope: On the death of Mrs T - part 1
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/04/on-death-of-mrs-t-part-1.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). On the death of Mrs T - part 1. Anyone with their head out from under a rock today will have heard that Margaret Thatcher has died. There is a lot more to write here but I don't have enough time or energy to finish this off right now so I will write more tomorrow. watch this space. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On the death of Mrs T - part 1. Brother Typewriter's Golf Ball. In Love With These Times In Spite Of These Times.
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giroscope: "Silly season" over? Not for Peter Kellner it isn't...
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/01/silly-season-over-not-for-peter-kellner.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Not for Peter Kellner it isn't. With things looking rather bleak for their particular brand of carbon-coby Toryism, the neo-Blairites have been forced to retreat into a fantasy world to avoid confronting the harsh truth that their project is in very poor health - perhaps DOA. The most obvious (and amusing) of the Blairite fantasists is Telegraph. And Kellner's latest YouGov column, " David Cameron's Happy New Year 2016. Probably not. Will they be 4 points behind.
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giroscope: Congratulations to the "Elite: Dangerous" team
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/01/congratulations-to-elite-dangerous-team.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Congratulations to the "Elite: Dangerous" team. Great news from the world of gaming! Has met its Kickstarter funding target. Of £1.25m and will now be going ahead. I like computer games but haven't really played any on a regular basis since Privateer 2. One of the greatest games of all time, and certainly the greatest 1980s home computer game - I make a very big exception. Is being developed by Frontier Developments. Kickstarter is providing a platform for crowd-fun...
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giroscope: The US election and a cautionary tale for the right-wing left
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-us-election-and-cautionary-tale-for.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). The US election and a cautionary tale for the right-wing left. Because they had institutions capable of distorting reality to fit that platform. I'm thinking here of FOX News, the whole network of right-wing think tanks, and all the rest of the conservative apparatus. (There is a very good discussion of the development of "movement conservatism" from the 1960s onwards in Paul Krugman's book The Conscience of A Liberal. Is first class and I can understand why some le...
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giroscope: The UK Independence Party and the reactionary majority
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-uk-independence-party-and.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). The UK Independence Party and the reactionary majority. Just for some explanation for starters. I never did finish that Mrs T post because the whole death and funeral thing became rather a media circus and in the end I was just glad it was all over. So there probably won't be a "Part 2" to that post. Sorry about that. ). And the Old Liberals. That classic "70s washing powder" logo for the Liberal Party is the best thing in British politics today, without a doubt).
