Author Archives: Paul Evans

Paul is a London-based blogger with a mixed track-record over at Never Trust a Hippy and a few other places. He usually writes about representative democracy and decentralisation. Follow him at www.twitter.com/paul0evans if you usually do that kind of thing.

Dead Man Walking

26Mar09 – 00:54

It may be a testimony to David Cameron's party leadership that he will shortly have to sack his main economic spokesman at a time that you could reasonably expect Government scalps to be hanging from his belt.
If the private polling that he is reading is telling him what the CEO of ComRes told the London [...]

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Hating politics

19Mar09 – 09:50

...no defence of politics, no outline of how it can be done properly, and no questioning of how far the quality of democracy can provide a cause for these problems...

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Hold the front page

18Mar09 – 23:56

Knife crime isn't going through the roof after all. Every paper will be full of it tomorrow. Remember where you read it first...

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Julie (is an idiot) Moult is an idiot

16Mar09 – 20:03

... or is that too kind? I remember one colleague insulting another a few years ago saying "you're either an idiot or a liar - I'll be charitable and assume you're lying." So. Moult. Idiot? Or scumbag? You decide!

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Controlling the entire world

15Mar09 – 12:30

Mick Hartley on an Egyptian Archeologist who knows something that we don't.

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Monkey see, Monkey do

15Mar09 – 12:00

Hakmao has found a model worker.

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Too long a road

09Mar09 – 13:23

Slugger O'Toole's Mick Fealty, writing on the Telegraph Brassneck blog:
As Anthony McIntrye notes, the dissidents have too long a road to travel to realise anything like success:
It will not kick start any campaign on the scale of the failed Provisional IRA armed venture. And if that failed in circumstances that were arguably more propitious for success [...]

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Truth: Out there (somewhere)

09Mar09 – 11:07

We've been accused of being a bit harsh on the Convention for Modern Liberty here. Not as harsh as one blogger who was first awoken by David Icke.

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