The start of something new

Hello, and welcome to my WordPress site. This is really just a way of posting to http://www.hackeryblog.co.uk in a few weeks’ time. In the meantime, you’ll find my writings over at my Blogger site.

The personal is political – and David Laws should be an advocate

Can someone tell me how using the public purse to pay your partner rent is in any way justifiable? Of course it isn’t. Parliamentary rules have stated that payments to relations and partners have been prohibited since 2006. But Liberal Democrat MP David Laws got away with it until shortly after the Coalition government was

Election reflections

So, it’s all over, after a lot of shouting. Politics certainly gets rough and dirty sometimes, but the UK-wide referendum campaign certainly plummeted to new depths of scaremongering, insults, half-truths and just downright lies. And that was just the Prime Minister. For the Liberal Democrats, both the local, Scottish and Welsh elections proved that you

Tom Harris and the case against the Alternative Vote

“No more loathsome piece of flotsam has floated to the surface of Scottish New Labour than the lumpen piece of wood that is Tom Harris” said George Galloway. A little cruel you might think, but Galloway was never adored in Parliament. With some pride, the Member for Glasgow South, not known for being a meek