Cameron Lets the Dogs Out
- April 15, 2011
- by
- Matt
Put yourself in David Cameron’s shoes. May council elections are just around the corner and your Coalition government is taking a relentless political kicking. Your cuts agenda is not only looking cruel but also incompetent, and now even the Royal College of Nursing has taken the unprecedented step of a no confidence vote in your hapless Health Secretary.
Even with Andy Coulson gone the phone hacking scandal continues to lap around your ankles like leaking sewage. In Libya the war that you leapt into with such boyish enthusiasm is turning into a...
Don’t Call an Ambulance
- April 13, 2011
- by
- Matt
So the London Ambulance Service will now have to lose 560 frontline jobs, 20 percent of the total. So, according to Unison’s regional organiser, Phil Thompson, “These cuts are so deep they may not heal. If allowed to be carried out they will put at risk the many Londoners who rely on the LAS...
The lady doth protest too much
- March 09, 2011
- by
- Matt
Posted on March 30, 2011 by Matt
Laurie Penny has become the object of much self-righteous outrage for her account of last Saturday”s march in London in the New Statesman. So far her article has generated 482 comments. These numbers are unusual for a Staggers piece, but the tone is not....
Recent Comments