Posted in politics on Jan 11th, 2008 No Comments »
It occurs to me that there would be a lot less coverage of the US Presidential Primaries here in the UK if the West Wing hadn’t been so widely watched by the kind of people responsible for deciding what political things get coverage.
Being an enormous fan of the West Wing, if not actual real […]
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Posted in politics on May 10th, 2007 No Comments »
10 years ago this week the first general election in which I could vote saw Labour sweep to a landslide victory under the leadership of Tony Blair. To the sound of D-Ream’s awful pop-dance anthem “Things Can Only Get Better,” accompanied by the jigging about of John Prescott, and Blair’s horribly staged managed decision to […]
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