http://www.recidivist.co.uk Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:56:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow.  Just slowly gearing up for a busy Friday when the Guardian homepage drew my attention to the balancing artist Eskil Ronningsbakken. As a sufferer of vertigo (I even get a rush of fear, nausea and exhileration if I drop something down the stairs!) these pictures caused me much discomfort and ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/eskil-ronningsbakken/ The press, in the main, is gushing today over the satanic alliance which we saw blessed in the gardens of No 10 Downing Street yesterday afternoon. The Liberals got a huge amount in negotiations - not least of which was a shelving (for the time being at least) of the ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/democracy-in-action/ I felt tearful after I cast my votes this morning. I can't help but feel negative - and dread that a Tory government is inevitable. So in the hope that one person might read this and change their mind, please think about the following when you vote today. Remember that self-interest serves ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/polling-day/ In the last few days an extraordinary thing has happened.  Gordon Brown has remembered why he is campaigning.  The press have remembered that he (and he alone out of the three main candidates) is a conviction politician - even the right-leaning papers said that this speech on Monday to Citizens ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/21-reasons-not-to-vote-for-cameron-21/ I've not spoken about Education yet, because I've been waiting to see if anyone fact-checks the Tories claims about what they can deliver. Let's leave aside the "Big Society" hogwash which they're trying to sell us, let's even ignore for now the well known failures in the Swedish version of the ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/21-reasons-not-to-vote-for-cameron-20/ There are a few personal financial policies which were bandied about in the final leaders debate which I would like to look at.  I've done some research on the policies, and looked at the great Channel 4 fact-checker micro-website, to try and draw some conclusions on the Tory economic policy. Inheritance ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/21-reasons-not-to-vote-for-cameron-18/ As if we need more reasons why gay people should feel alienated from the neo-nasty party, along comes news that Phillipa Stroud, the woman who has headed up the Tory think-tank, The Centre for Social Justice, is a "Christian" who set up a church which tried to convince its gay ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/21-reasons-not-to-vote-for-cameron-18-2/ A man is known by the company he keeps. Part 3. As I've mentioned before, the Ashcroft case is so well documented that it will serve little purpose to go over the whole sorry episode again. But what I do want to reiterate is that however much he wants to distance himself ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/21-reasons-not-to-vote-for-cameron-17/ This is one for the Tories. When the expenses crisis broke (and let's gloss over the completely biased handling of it by The Telegraph - which published day after day after day of Labour expenses so that it was firmly established in the public's and the media's minds as a Labour ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/21-reasons-not-to-vote-for-cameron-16/ On the day that the front pages are rightly dominated by Gordon's bigot gaffe, I can only come back with a sense of balance on this. Gordon was wrong to respond as he did, although in his defence, Mrs Duffy had asked questions and then repeatedly talked over him while ... http://www.recidivist.co.uk/21-reasons-not-to-vote-for-cameron-15/