Ludicrous self-publicist Robert Kilroy-Silk has quit the party he founded, Veritas.
Apparently, the ideas he espoused, such as immediate withdrawal from the European Union, abolishing inheritance tax on houses and expelling all asylum seekers (except those with children) are “now part of the political mainstream”. I can’t say I’d noticed, to be honest, but perhaps that’s what all washed up has-been xenophobes like to think.
Tristram Hunt (author of the excellent Building Jerusalem) invokes Orwell in an excellent article in the New Statesman, on the nature of Britishness.
That IRA statement in full.
An amazing Rap version of some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. via BBC News.
Pretend you are the world’s leading search company. (via BoingBoing)
The Power Inquiry, which is still going strong, is proposing that people have dinner with each other and talk about democracy. Raita and representation or polenta and people power? Link via Demos Greenhouse.
Ooh, Doug Masson’s wife is in labour – good luck!
Hansard Society research paper on on-line campaigning in the recent UK election, Spinning the Web. Interesting in parts, but brings to mind Marx’s dictum.
Businesses can now find out how they could save money by being green, through the Government’s Envirowise web site. Link via Sussex Enterprise
Other recommendations from the Glasgow trip.
Food: Bouzy Rouge seafood and grill, home of a huge and excellent Chateaubriand. Antipasti – a friendly and easygoing Italian, with a branch on Sauchiehall Street and one (the one we visited) on Byres Road in the cool West End.
Theatre: Glasgow Rep‘s production of Twelfth Night in the Botanical Gardens – lots of walking around following the actors, very involving and a good production.