Entries from May 2007 ↓

I think that we are making progress in the campaign to get Police Community Support Officers issued with stab vests.

Actually, I like Andy Coulson. He was good company on the few occasions that I met him.

He’s out of work. The Tories are in media disarray. So why not?

More TV debates please! I’ve had lots of calls and emails from friends who said that they were deeply impressed by Jon’s performance on Newsnight. He presents on telly like he’s not on telly, if you know what I mean. I find it refreshing. Clearly many party members do too.

David Willets: No more grammar schools
George Osborne: No new grammar schools
Dominic Grieve: We need more grammar schools
Conservatives: We are not in disarray

Shall we just get the gag about an actor having no chance of being elected President out of the way now?

Costs £50 million a year.

I wonder what Luke Akehurst will say about this. Quentin Letts declares victory to Cruddas.

Why they don’t they finish the job by emptying the libraries and burning all the books.

George Osborne: We are the heirs to Blair
Graham Brady: It cannot be enough to claim that we are the true “heir to Blair”

Wow.

Endemol’s “who gets the kidney?” game is used by a number of libertarians to make the point that we need a market in organs in order to increase supply.

Hmmm.

Tell me how many millionaires would sell their kidney and I might see the ethical side of that argument. Compensate people for their time and loss of earnings whilst they recover from a donation, sure, but to do any more is economic exploitation.

Let Endemol attempt to shore up an argument that they’re highlighting a shortage in organs if they like, but their show is still a vulgar dive into the macabre in my view.

And if you really want to increase organ donation, look to Spain. Better co-ordination, proper education and a form of presumed consent is the way forward.

Luke not being funny. I’m sure that Hazel would not agree with his negative approach.

“Those of us who were involved as policy strategists during the Blair years need to acknowledge what we got wrong….”

“…Too much choice will ultimately drive out voice, enabling some to jump the queue.”

Read what former-Downing Street aid, roaming lecturer, potential parliamentary candidate and scholar of metaphysico-theologico-cosmoloonigology has to say about the future.