The Blood is The Life 15-01-2013
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 09:00 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_s_b- The incredible imploding UKIP
- good news! Julian Huppert isn't standing down :)
- calls for Julie Burchill to be arrested for hate crimes
- Dimensions in Time | How Your Average Whovian Views The Doctors
LOL this is worryingly like me.
- Private renters the next target group of swing voters?
They're a growing band, after all
- Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore apologises for ‘Brazilian transsexual’ remark - PinkNews.co.uk
Too little too late; that said, any apology is a step in the right direction. It'd be nice to see her condemn Burchill though.
- Savile: Denialism and the "grooming the nation" delusion
"The sum of Savile’s crimes is barely even significant against the number of similar cases that will have occurred in 2013 so far. Why? Because we continue to allow a rape culture to exist, a culture that enables – and at times encourages - sexual violence against women and children." - stunningly good piece by Martin Robbins.
- Statement from John Mulholland, editor of The Observer | Comment is free | Observer.co.uk
- The invasion of the giant seagulls has begun
Cthulhu save me! Or at least eat me first so I don't get et by the seagull!
- ScienceDirect.com - Electoral Studies - Are you sitting comfortably? Estimating incumbency advantage in the UK: 1983–2010 – A research note
"MPs of all parties gain an incumbency advantage. ► Lib Dem MPs have the larger such advantages than Labour or Conservatives. ► Incumbency is significant enough to change the result in as many as twenty seats" - Labour 2% incumency bonus, Tory 1%, Lib Dem between 5 and 15%. This is because we don't stop working once we get elected like some.
- Why do we need a Census? « The Policy Press Blog
- Secret papers show extent of senior royals' veto over bills | UK news | The Guardian
Grauniad wakes up to what those of us who studied law and/or politics have known forever.
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Date: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 10:04 am (UTC)