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SLINGERBLOG: My Labour speech at the office election hustings
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Friday, 1 May 2015. My Labour speech at the office election hustings. This is an election where expectations nationally, and in this room, are being confounded. Where Ed Miliband smashed the caricature, hugged a Hen party, while Dave forgot his footie team. Where it’s now Labour competence, versus Tory chaos:. If Ed worked h...
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SLINGERBLOG: September 2014
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Thursday, 25 September 2014. My LabourUncut piece on Phil Collins' stage interview with Chuka Umunna at Labour Conference. Chuka Umunna – A pro on what Labour must be pro if we are to win again. The wit was there, from Collins of course, but while refuting the “nonsense” charge that Labour isn’t sufficientl...It was good to ...
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SLINGERBLOG: February 2015
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Friday, 20 February 2015. Times letter: government showed Putin and others our weakness in Syria. Http:/ www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article4359508.ece. Friday, 13 February 2015. My Times letter on rape sentencing. Sir, You report that “Britain leads Europe on sending rapists to jail” (Feb 12). Heres my twitter pr...
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SLINGERBLOG: My London Evening Standard letter on valuing humans above statues in Palmyra
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Friday, 22 May 2015. My London Evening Standard letter on valuing humans above statues in Palmyra. During the Syrian conflict, the international community chose not to intervene as 200,000 people died. But there wouldn’t be a more pathetic image of Western weakness than if action was taken to save Palmyra. I used to play and...
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SLINGERBLOG: May 2015
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Friday, 22 May 2015. My London Evening Standard letter on valuing humans above statues in Palmyra. During the Syrian conflict, the international community chose not to intervene as 200,000 people died. But there wouldn’t be a more pathetic image of Western weakness than if action was taken to save Palmyra. In his last act.
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SLINGERBLOG: Progressonline oped: To defeat the terrorists we must defeat defeatism
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Monday, 13 July 2015. Progressonline oped: To defeat the terrorists we must defeat defeatism. To defeat the terrorists we must defeat defeatism. Such a prophecy would have been dismissed as outlandish. That it has come to pass is no accident. It has occurred because of many factors, not least of which being the west&...Is a ...
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SLINGERBLOG: June 2014
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Friday, 13 June 2014. Panellist at SOAS Kurdish Society / Kurdistan Regional Government UK Representation event on "What future for Syria's children? During my talk, I used the microphone to play the audience audio from the video below of a man singing a lament in his UNHCR tent in the Domiz refugee camp near the Syrian bord...
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SLINGERBLOG: July 2015
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Monday, 20 July 2015. My Times letter about high pay at IPSA. Sir Ian Kennedy claims ( letter, July 17. Can it be that working as a senior member of Ipsa’s staff is more important than the work of an MP? Online at The Times here. Labels: MPs pay; public pay; politics. Tuesday, 14 July 2015. Imagine if he’d turned out t...
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SLINGERBLOG: June 2015
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Tuesday, 16 June 2015. A poem I wrote. Amidst the profound mystery. A premonition of what's past compels. Searing sounds, smells, speech. Before the glimpse goes. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My writing on foreign policy, including Syria / intervention. Politics Through Letters - collection of my letters in national newspapers.
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SLINGERBLOG: July 2014
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Wednesday, 30 July 2014. Letter in The Independent: Bring the people to Westminster. Bring the people to Westminster. They would serve one-year terms and be given training. They would compose 50 per cent of the chamber, with the remainder made up of “Expert Senators” selected by an independent appointments sy...In The Times ...
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