RDN’s 2009 book on the country’s and the Cameroons’ fear of good old Tory tropes.
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 16 May 2010. No comments.
Just before I get too sunny, here are three areas where the country’s politicians, and the Tories not least, face real problems. They all centre on the country’s habit of self-deception. More »
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 16 May 2010. No comments.
This is a golden period for Conservatives. Their party is a natural vehicle for the politics and government of the early 21st Century. Who’d a thunk it? More »
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 9 May 2010. One comment.
One ought to take some risks at such a time. Mine is to say that this is the best political period for decades. More »
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns / Rightist manifestos on 9 May 2010. No comments.
This is still a country which is socially conservative, sexually permissive, economically entrepreneurial and obstinately attached to a statist welfare system. But we are less inclined to disenfranchise the fence-sitting Lib-Dem voters. What now for the Tories? More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 7 May 2010. No comments.
In previous posts I have remarked what a great political and constitutional opportunity the UK now has. But it depends far more on individual MPs than on their leaders, constitutional historians, greybeard commentators or anyone else. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 6 May 2010. No comments.
This is perhaps the most exciting election of my lifetime, and I don’t care who wins….. More »
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 30 April 2010. No comments.
Six days before 2010 election and the beginning of a new age in British politics, can we claim Mr Cameron’s Makeover Politics a success or a failure? More »
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 28 April 2010. One comment.
The 2010 intake of MPs can transform government with a Blackberry coup. At last, social media will make a positive difference to our politics……. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Rightist manifestos on 9 March 2010. No comments.
I was bucked to have a piece run on the Guardian’s Comment Is Free (Cif). I was bemoaning Mr Cameron’s Makeover Politics. Here are a few reflections on the comments it received. More »
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 2 March 2010. No comments.
I want to scrap the BBC, expand the military, phase out the NHS and the rest of the Welfare State, empower Whitehall. What is this unholy muddle? And how does affect politics? Do the Tories get it? More »
