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Month: May 2020

A nice way to spend your Sunday afternoon, watching This House

A nice way to spend your Sunday afternoon, watching This House

Like Mike Smithson I love the play This House, I saw This House at the theatre back in 2012 and when it was repeated in the cinemas in 2013, so I utterly delighted a wider audience will be able to see this. I was born in the late 70s but I’ve always been fascinated by these crucial votes in Parliament, particularly the 1979 vote of no confidence, something which is a pivot moment in the history of this country. It’s…

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We need to talk about Donald Trump’s Twitter account

We need to talk about Donald Trump’s Twitter account

Donald Trump and his Twitter account seems to be the embodiment of David Cameron’s maxim about Twitter, but this week Trump seems to have really caught the attention of Twitter with some pretty interesting actions regarding his tweets. So onto the betting angle of this story. Ladbrokes have a market up on Trump’s Twitter account to be deactivated or suspended before the end of June 2020 at 10/1. Usually a profitable route is not to get involved in betting markets…

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The betting chances of Minnesota Senator Klobuchar getting the VP nomination plummet following the riots sweeping the US

The betting chances of Minnesota Senator Klobuchar getting the VP nomination plummet following the riots sweeping the US

From a 25% chance to a 4% one in a few days The huge story in the US at the moment are the riots in many leading cities which have been set off by the killing of George Floyd by a policeman. Floyd, an African-American, died in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, when a White Minneapolis police officer, knelt on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. This was all videoed. Minnesota is of course where Klobuchar is from…

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Lockdown is over. What next?

Lockdown is over. What next?

Complex and odd rules plus the Cummings effect mean the public will decide for themselves what to do about Covid-19 Winston Churchill did not go out of his way to sell sunny optimism. During the 1930s, much to the irritation of his own party, he led the campaign to rearm the country in the face of a Nazi threat he considered – and said – was much greater and more imminent than the government would allow. On becoming prime minister,…

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Boris looks as though he’s survived the Cummings lockdown road trip – but at what price?

Boris looks as though he’s survived the Cummings lockdown road trip – but at what price?

Can the PM get back to where he was? The above is one of the videos now on YouTube with the words of the Proclaimers 500 Miles song adapted for Mr Cummings and his drive to Durham during the lockdown. This events of the past week have dominated the headlines and become a big talking point. The question is what will be the long term political impact? All the polling as we have seen has been very negative with even…

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Tonight’s National Theatre at Home re-run of the The House is a must watch for all political nerds

Tonight’s National Theatre at Home re-run of the The House is a must watch for all political nerds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vsSHyjEMrg Tonight on YouTube starting at 7pm there’s a rerun of what to me is best play about politics in years – James Graham’s “This House” chronicling the period 1974 until Mrs. Thatcher’s victory in 1979. It is set in the whips offices of both Labour and Tories from the February 1974 election being called through to 1979. We watch first the period when Labour tried operate without a majority and then as it tries to govern with a majority…

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