http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk Collaborative Blog | Magazine Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:39:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I read with great interest that the Guardian thinks that Barack Obama "Risks sounding cocky" by outlining his plans for Presidency. This despite it being a tradition for plausible participants in a presidential election declaring "When I am president..." Now the only difference is that McCain is not within that category. http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1893 Endeavour, comrades, to find some pity for that most wretched of creatures: the intellectual conservative. http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1891 The excellent Glenn Greenwald notes the GOP suddenly watering down their former favourite line. The loss of old standards can cast a political party adrift at the best of times {just witness the woe that has befallen the Conservative Party now their "small state" rhetoric is the exact opposite of ... http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1889 McCain supporters take on...Some McCain supporters. Glad to see that the more rational side of McCain's campaign are purging the nut-jobs. I wonder, though, what it is that attracted them there. Oh yeah, and the long pause when they were asked to support their accusations amused me. http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1886 As you can probably tell, I'm not getting a lot of spare time here. Certainly not enough to write much worth reading, but neither enough to follow politics as closely as I once used to. One of the rare sites still worth delaying essays for is fivethirtyeight, which I really ... http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1882 Campbell Brown attacks the root. Something that has occurred to me too. http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1879 Things are getting interesting in local government (yes, you read that correctly).  It seems as if upwards of 20 councils have money stashed away in Icelandic banks, and are going to have some difficulty accessing their deposits following the nationwide banking collapse. I am amazed that councils deposit money in foreign ... http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/ali/1877 The Scribo team (or, rather, I on behalf of the Scribo team) apologise for the lack of posting recently.  Doug and James headed to University on Saturday, and I went up on Sunday.  Freshers' week and general business have pushed blogging slightly off the agenda, but not off the radar.  ... http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/ali/1875 The Met are in open revolt.  Does this mean that they see Boris Johnson as an opportunity for change? http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/ali/1873 Douglas and James leave for university tomorrow; Ali also goes shortly afterwards. Posting may therefore be light for a while - we'll try our best to keep up, but that may be overly optimistic. http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/admin/1870 Brown looks intent on respawning New Labour. Or rather, New Labour's propaganda apparatus; Derek Draper returned recently, Mandelson comes back today. Unity suspects Campbell might return in a consulting role to fully pull together the team that tripped the landslide in 1997. Add to that the apparent retention and promotion ... http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/editor/1867 The reshuffle is more horrible than I could ever have imagined. Yes, it's the return of Peter Mandelson, he who starves the poor and says that Brown should hold New Labour to the "Centre" rather than swinging left (when in fact the former would require the latter). John Hutton is ... http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1862 First a word from Penny Red: I rarely talk about American politics on this blog, and even less so since the hype has ramped up over the November election. Part of this has been because I believe that voyeuristic obsession over a political event with which British voters are relatively uninvolved ... http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1851 Fox News tries to count: Sarah Palin tries to play the flute: http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1832 I'm not a rich man. John McCain, oh he of the 13 cars and 7 houses (was that how many there were? He certainly can't remember...) http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/1848