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Monthly Archives: November 2004
No 2nd President Clinton
More US politics because next year’s election here in the UK is a boring forgone conclusion. My Labour Win 97
mug is looking quite sorry for itself these days.
When I was younger I just assumed Lincoln had been a Democrat because he was one of the good guys, right? Then I discovered he had been a Republican.
moral values was not the issue
Calpundit blogger Kevin Drum : the data seems to indicate that conservative moral value voters didn’t have any more impact this year than any other year. In fact, if anything, maybe slightly less.
Young Trotsky and the Jewish vote
As a young Trotskyite - until my mother put her foot down, curtailed my liberty and refused to allow the Dave Spartist Militant in the house - I loathed the SWP and the WRP and, well, everything that wasn’t Militant. It was deemed a deliberate insult to be called a Trotskyite rather than a Trotskyist - or it might have been the other way about.
Outsourcing
Low skilled employees could find they are out of a job within a decade as an increasing number of UK firms shift work abroad, says CBI boss Digby Jones.
Mr Jones said the trend was for unskilled and semi-skilled jobs to be exported to countries like China, and be replaced at home by graduate posts.
BBC : UK firms to look abroad
Bush, the UK and the Beeb
I was too depressed to even speak this morning. I thought of my late mother, who read Mein Kampf when it came out in the 1930s [sic] and thought, ‘Why doesn’t anyone see where this is leading?’ ”
Media psychologist Oliver James, The Guardian