• Halloween

    Updated: 2010-10-31 00:53:20
    [IMG: image307659425.jpg] Halloween tonight - and thanks to my friend Sarah who's kindly designed my pumpkin this year! I hope everyone has a fun evening. Philip [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

  • Its been a week for putting your foot in your mouth

    Updated: 2010-10-30 21:49:32
    Copyright Steve Bell in the Guardian Sometimes there are funny weeks in Politics where you wonder what planet our politicians are living in. This week was one of them. Firstly Boris Johnson decides to make an ill advised reference to ethnic cleansing in Kosovo when referring to the proposed Housing Benefits cuts and the impact they might have on driving people out of London who can no longer afford to live there. Then today, Harriet Harman, speaking at the Scottish Labour Party Conference, referred to Danny Alexander as a 'Ginger Rodent' Boris' quote whilst stupid is nothing more than we ...

  • Greens set for Significant Gains at Victorian Election

    Updated: 2010-10-28 02:27:48
    According to the Newspoll published in this morning's Australian, the Greens are set for a dramatic increase in support at the Victorian election on 27 November. (Click this link to visit the ABC's Victorian election site.) The poll shows the...

  • Victorian Election Candidates - tell me about them

    Updated: 2010-10-26 11:33:40
    Nominations for the 2010 Victorian Election will open next Wednesday, 3 November. So far I have several hundred candidates for the election listed at http://www.abc.net.au/elections/vic/2010/. There's an alphabetic list of candidates at http://www.abc.net.au/elections/vic/2010/guide/candidateindex.htm. You can link to individual electorates from...

  • Victorian election Calculator now live

    Updated: 2010-10-25 13:06:54
    My ABC Election Calculator for the Victorian election is now live by following this link. It works as normal, allowing you to enter a state-wide swing between Labor and the Coalition. But we've modified it to include a second slider...

  • Centenary of the First NSW Labor Government

    Updated: 2010-10-20 12:24:57
    Thursday 21 October 2010 celebrates 100 years since the formation of the first New South Wales Labor government. On a cool and showery Friday 21 October 1910, veteran Labor Leader James McGowen and his caucus colleagues met to elect a...

  • UK Comprehensive Spending Review Poll

    Updated: 2010-10-19 01:08:45
    October 20th 2010 coalition government comprehensive spending review, good fiscal management or ideological led Tory changes to government spending? With government spending cuts expected to be as high as 40% in some government departments over the course of this parliament, are we looking at the Conservatives taking advantage of economic strife by pushing for ideological [...]

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