Last night I went to the see The Iron Lady at Kilburn’s Tricycle Theatre – my local independent cinema. Reflections on the film are below, but a couple of other thoughts before that. First, I’m upset with myself that I haven’t visited the Tricycle before, despite having lived in the area for the best part …
Conservatives
‘Conservative-led’? Or just Conservative?
It’s been a year since Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet diktat to stop using the word ‘coalition’ to describe the current government. The preferred term is ‘conservative-led’, chosen – apparently – to highlight the rightwing agenda of the government and the impotence of the Liberal Democrats in the coalition. A year on and it’s still bloody …