The Thunderdragon doesn’t care who is a BNP member; I’d like to explain why TD should.
TD says, in short, that the BNP is a legitimate political party and membership of a party should, therefore, not impact on what job you can have. I think this is patent rubbish; some jobs have to take account of [...]

I’m not going to go over it in fine detail, although I recommend the posts and comments at Pickled Politics, Liberal Conspiracy and these two at the Wardman Wire. The second one deals with legal implications for blogs; look, listen and take heed. I commented on the subject at PP, and it pretty much sums [...]

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne called for the Office of National Statistics - rather than the Home Office - to be given direct responsibility for crime figures.
As reported by BBC News. I think he’s probably right. We need to have absolute confidence in our statistics and, even though, as Huhne says, in today’s [...]

While everyone was focusing on the dropping of the legislation to detain people for forty-two days without trial following last night’s vote, another part of the Counter Terrorism Bill has been dropped. Lord West has, apparently, written to his opposite numbers to indicate that the Government will now vote for the removal of clauses 64 [...]

I’m running a symposium on devolution in the UK over at the Wardman Wire. Do go over and take a look; the first post, by yours truly, is ‘It’s a long way to Westminster‘ and the second, from Garbo, is ‘The Great English Parliament Debate‘.
If you’d like to contribute, drop me an email!
And, as today [...]

I would urge any Labour party members connected with the City of London to heed this appeal from City of London BLP secretary (and NEC member) Peter Kenyon:
This is a call to all Labour Party members and supporters working in the City of London. City of London Labour Party would like to hear from you.
The [...]

I mentioned the Tatler Ten a little while ago. Imagine my surprise to tune into the Tory party conference to see Jeremy Brier on stage, having a chat with Alan Duncan, George Osborne and someone I didn’t recognise, only to then see Kulveer Ranger appear in the next segment.
xD.

The 507 (Wikipedia, TfL) and 521 (Wikipedia, TfL) are going to be the first London bus routes to have the bendy bus removed. This is going to make my commute into work longer. Bendy buses have attracted a lot of opprobrium; read on to find out why they’re actually a really good idea.

The 507 and [...]

Yes, they’re very representative of Britain today. Half went to Oxford or Cambridge, eight went to university. Six grew up in London or the Home Counties. Four of the eight PPCs are standing for London seats and the other four are standing in the southern half of England. They are the Tatler Ten.
Tatler (via [...]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been taken into ‘conservatorship’. I’m no expert, but the issuing of new, common stock to the federal government and the drop in value of existing stock means that, effectively, Fannie and Freddie have been nationalised, albeit on a temporary basis. The Congressional Budget Office has apparently said that the [...]