View Larger Map The signs are that there’s going to be a good attendance of PBers at the next site event a week tonight. Like the past few London get-togethers the venue is the Dirty Dick public house in Bishopsgate which is almost across the road from the main entrance of Liverpool Liverpool Street station. The event starts at about 6.30. See you there. @MikeSmithsonPB
Henry G Manson says it could provide an opening for Ken With 9 months to go to London mayoral election we’re now in the territory where campaign themes are developed and firmed up. Even though it is not within mayoral powers, the 50p tax is one issue could certainly come into the mix. Boris Johnson has been the most strident Conservative politician in calling to abolish the last government’s 50p tax rate on those earning over £150,000 per year. This…
Should all three be on hols at the same time? It’s almost an August banker – at some stage during the month every year there’ll be a front page like today’s Mirror about leading political figures being on their holidays while a crisis beckons. But with scare headlines running across almost all today’s papers shouldn’t at least one of the top team always be on hand? Surely they could have planned it that way? Share collapses like we’ve seen can…
Ipsos-MORI Why this divide on bringing capital punishment back? As most PBers probably know Guido has launched a campaign for the re-introduction of capital punishment which hasn’t been used as a penalty in the UK since the summer of 1964. I remember it well because at the time I was doing a vacation job at a printers next to Strangeways prison in Manchester and was one of the group waiting outside for the notice of the execution to be posted…
Is the hacking effect starting to recede? The latest YouGov party leadership ratings for News International are out and show the prime minister gaining some ground. As can be seen Dave is up a net five on last week with Ed down a net two and Clegg unchanged. Looking back over the past few weeks both Clegg and Miliband are still in much better positions than before the scandal erupted. Miliband is a net 17 points up while Clegg is…
Henry G Manson on a possible Blue-Yellow clash So far public tensions and skirmishes between the two Coalition parties have centred on social policy such as on the NHS or democratic reform such as AV and the House of Lords. The greatest unity appears has been on the government’s economic agenda despite significant pre-election differences between the parties. That could soon change. There has been a growing frequency number of nods and winks from the Treasury that George Osborne intends…
Why so little interest? With one year to go until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London, a YouGov shows British divided over support for the Games and the benefits hosting will bring. 40% are interested in the London Olympic Games with one year to go 44% think London should have bid for the Games, 42% disagree 55% think the Games will be good for London generally Athletics is the most popular sport with 68% choosing it as…
Guardian Will Obama and Congress go to the brink and beyond? Possibly the biggest political gamble going on at the moment is the series of judgement calls being made by politicians in Washington. By their failure to agree so far, they are running the very real risk of at the least a partial shutdown of the federal government and at worst an outright default. None of it need happen. The markets are willing to lend the money the government needs…