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Light Blogging

Charlotte Gore — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:26:02 +0000

Am currently working on my CV and putting together a portfolio/demo website. In other words, needs must etc.

Blogging. It’s great, but it doesn’t pay the bills. Sadly.

Cough

Charlotte Gore — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:22:48 +0000

Is this thing on?

Elsewhere…

Charlotte Gore — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:27:51 +0000

In case you missed it, I’ve got a Doctor Who related piece on the Spectator’s Arts Blog “Touching from a Distance”.

Sorry about the lack of blogging this week. Have been working – got to eat!

Community Notice

Charlotte Gore — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:19:24 +0000

Due to problems with the box that this site runs on, I’m having to move it to a new box. I hope this will fix some of the problems people have noticed lately.

Until it’s all completed I can’t add new content, and for some people it may mean the site is down for up to 24 hours due to delays that can happen when you point a domain name to somewhere new.

That’s it! Budget analysis will have to wait, but needless to say I’m not impressed with the VAT increase. I’ll still be Twittering – I’m on there as @charlottegore.

Community Announcement

Charlotte Gore — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:11:45 +0000

The keenly observant amongst you will have noticed that this blog hasn’t had my full attention this week. There’s been work to do, not least of which because I’ve been helping set up another blog which will be launching soon – more on this soon, I hope.

Normal service shall be resumed shortly. Missed loads of interesting stories, but my favourite – in a makes-me-so-angry-I-want-to-puke sort of way was the “There’s no money left” joke note left for David Laws. Cos, hey, that’s hilarious. Yep.

I also want to get stuck into the Labour Leadership contest to discover what non-Labourites need to know about Next Labour. I’m still convinced we’re going to see a much more aggressively anti-immigration, anti-EU, anti-Market Labour Party which will attempt to rebuild that core vote. Is David Miliband the right man for that job? I don’t think so.

In other news we got the full Programme For Government published, which needs some picking over. That probably won’t happen on this blog – I’ve never been a policy wonk and I don’t intend to start now – but did I mention there’s another blog starting up? Perhaps that’ll be of help. Who knows?

Why the Tories need the deal

Charlotte Gore — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:34:50 +0000

A quick one this: It’s pretty obvious that this next Government needs to do some pretty brutal things in order to get the public books back into some semblance of sanity. The Tories, of course, needed to ‘decontaminate’ their brand because of the hatred they inspired in so many the last time they engaged in a similar exercise with the public finances. Do they really want to come back into power after 13 years away to deliver the sort of ‘savage’ cuts necessary?

I suspect they don’t. A Coalition Government gives the impression that they’re acting in the national interest, not party interest. “If it’s okay by the Lib Dems, it can’t be that bad, can it? It must be necessary, right?”

We’ll see if the Lib Dems make a big enough crowd for the Tories to hide safely in.

Tom Harris points out the obvious

Charlotte Gore — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:41:52 +0000

Tom’s very depressing day…

It’s reported that “Labour” is offering the LibDems an immediate Bill to ditch FPTP in favour of AV and a referendum on further change afterwards. This cannot be delivered; Labour MPs will not support it. I do hope some senior LibDems are reading this.

I once witnessed the spectacle of a dog being offered a walk and food at the same time. It ran in circles, terrified of losing the walk if he went for the food, and terrified of losing the food if it went for the walk.

The Current Political Situation

Charlotte Gore — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:56:58 +0000

I woke up this morning with this image in my head and had it on Twitter before I was even out of bed. I really need to stop taking my laptop into the bedroom.

Four Lions and other things

Charlotte Gore — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:54:25 +0000

A proper review of Four Lions is going to have to wait, I’m afraid. Saw it last night and felt truly ashamed about what I was capable of laughing at. Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with me – the true test of your character is whether or not you find yourself laughing uncontrollably at a suicide bomber with a carrier bag full of explosives tripping over a sheep, taking them both out. I failed. Badly.

Still, it’s only as the hours went by that it sunk in what this film really is: It’s Chris Morris winning the War on Terror, single handed. More soon. Tonight I’m off to see Flight of the Conchords, which I’d entirely forgotten about until today. Sadly I’m on driving duty though. Ah well.

No news on the politics front. They’re still talking, and speculation is getting wilder and wilder. My Comment Is Free piece is up now which will tide things over until we get something new to write about. Fun times!

How Badly does Cameron want to be PM?

Charlotte Gore — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:35:46 +0000

One more thought on this, backed up by Guido and Alex Massie: If Cameron really won’t budge on electoral reform and ends up not being Prime Minister as a result (and then having to endure referendums on PR and Scottish Independence anyway) he may well go down in history as the Conservatives thickest leader in history.

Nick and Dave: DO THE DEAL!