My must-reads this week February 26, 2016
by Stephen Tall on February 26, 2016
You can read all the articles that have caught my attention this week here: https://delicious.com/stephentall Below are a selection… Sponsored: The 3 Week Diet 8 Rules of Fat Loss. Warning: Fast Results! Click Here to Watch Video… Which seats go (…)
Confessions of a Lib Dem Eurosceptic
by Stephen Tall on February 22, 2016
Embed from Getty Images By Lib Dem standards, I’m something of a Eurosceptic. That is, I accept the EU is less than perfect. A lot less than perfect. I’m not alone. When I polled party members for LibDemVoice a couple (…)
My must-reads this week February 19, 2016
by Stephen Tall on February 19, 2016
You can read all the articles that have caught my attention this week here: https://delicious.com/stephentall Below are a selection… Sponsored: Meet TulaCo Trusted Development Partner. From Start-Ups to Enterprise How shift to computer-based tests could shake up PISA education rankings (…)
In praise of Peter Tatchell (but not of identity politics)
by Stephen Tall on February 16, 2016
Embed from Getty Images I suspect if Peter Tatchell and I ever sat down to talk about the economy we’d be poles apart. He’s a far-lefty, I’m not. But he happens also to be one of my political heroes, a (…)
Who will speak for England? Turns out, it’s David Cameron
by Stephen Tall on February 4, 2016
Much deserved mockery greeted the Daily Mail’s portentous front page plea for a plucky patriot to take up cudgels on behalf of Brexit: Today the Mail asks a question of profound significance to our destiny as a sovereign nation and (…)
Brexit, Animal Farm, and political fanatics
by Stephen Tall on February 3, 2016
Can’t think what it was about Tim Montgomerie’s tweet, below, which put me in mind of this quote* from George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “The creatures outside looked from Brexiter to Cybernat, and from Corbynista to Brexiter, and from Brexiter to (…)