From the Guardian right now:   Now there’s an idea.

Tony Blair once offered a pledge card to secure votes. I happen to think they’re a good idea. Here’s are the commitments I want from Labour: 1. Job creation through a Green new Deal to increase tax paid and reduce welfare benefits to clear the deficit 2. Tackle the tax gap to close the deficit and restore pensions
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Clegg has apologised. It wasn’t pretty watching. But what was worse, is how wrong he got the apology. Watch it here : sorry, I just can’t face embedding it. At about 40 seconds in he begins to talk about the detail of the tuition fees policy. Note first of all that he does not apologise for voting for tuition fees: far
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This is what Romeny said in his now famous video about the people in the US who don’t pay Federal Income tax: [They] will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government
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I’ve just noticed a Fabian Society email that starts: Like it or not (and a lot of Fabians definitely do not), most analysts predict a hung Parliament after the 2015 General Election. Why, one has to ask? First, why did I read the mail (research, I promise you) and second, why do they want to
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Jeffrey Sachs has written this in the FT this morning: America’s two political parties depend on wealthy contributors to finance their presidential campaigns. These donors want and expect their taxes to stay low. As a result, social divisions, broken infrastructure, laggard educational attainments, high carbon emissions and chronic budget deficits are likely to continue no
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The Guardian has published an interview with Stella Creasy MP. Its opening two paragraphs say: Labour should go into the next election promising to reassess every single item of departmental public spending in response to mounting government debt and the pressure on public resources caused by an ageing population, Stella Creasy, a Labour frontbencher has told
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Giles Fraser said that in the Guardian this morning. And this: As a work of literature, Atlas Shrugged is drivel, and not simply because it is so up itself with its own perceived radicalism; fundamentally, all propaganda is drivel, even if it is propaganda in a good cause. Ayn Rand’s cause was to celebrate what
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I note this morning that the Guardian are saying of Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate: Murdoch described Ryan, the most right-wing of the candidates on Romney’s vice-presidential shortlist, as “almost perfect”. The choice of words is telling. Read this Washington Post article by Ezra Klein. What Murdoch calls almost perfect is
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