The Guernica comes to London!

A couple of months ago I blogged about the Guernica painting by Picasso, a symbol of civilian suffering during armed conflicts. Well, now you don’t need me to tell you about it anymore because the Grauniad is reporting that the painting will be coming to London soon!
After this past month’s conflict in Gaza I believe the Guernica’s symbolism [...]

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The Daley spin

Sometimes I just don’t know if Iain Dale simply loves spinning or he writes the most outrageous posts just to fill in his blog more than once everyday…
Either way have a look at his post yesterday:
‘Families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington’ – President Obama, 21 January 2009 
Can you imagine Gordon Brown saying anything similar? No, thought [...]

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I don’t like you but I need you: Cameron’s reshuffle revisited

Not did they just run against each other for the Tory leadership in 2005 and disagree on Europe, VAT cuts and their approach to the economic crisis, Cameron’s new found pal, Kenneth ‘big beast’ Clarke, was also responsible for the firing of the current Tory leader in 1993 from his post as special advisor to [...]

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Daddy Brown puts them to sleep (Bizarre photos vol 1)

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Heathrow’s expansion: some thoughts

As the expansion is given the green light by the DfT I cannot but amaze myself at the colourful coalition of people opposing it: John McDonnell, Boris Johnson, Emma Thompson, Zac Goldsmith…. So I thought that Forgesian Thinking should also add its two pence to the debate. So here we go…
I am supportive on the [...]

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Campaigners buy land where Heatrow’s third runway was to be built

A coalition of green activists has bought the piece of land that was to be the site where the third Heathrow runway was to be built. Oscar winner Emma Thompson, new Tory posterboy Zac Goldsmith and NGOs such as Greenpeace have teamed up to buy the land before the government gave the project the green [...]

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A clear choice…

My friend Liliane has received today this email from Labour HQ,
Dear Liliane
I’m sure you’ve already seen reports about our employment summit on the news today and I wanted to contact you directly about the unprecedented challenges that this summit is helping to address.
Let’s be clear – we are facing the first crisis of the global [...]

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New gateway to Labour blogging launched

It was no secret that Derek Draper was launching a new site aimed at strengthening Labour’s online army in the war of the blogs. A meeting was organised a few weeks ago by Draper for a bunch of Labour people to hear what Blue State Digital, the online strategy firm behind Obama’s online campaign, had [...]

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