Kester Brewin

Great cartoon from Steve Bell as usual. The question now is, what should Clegg do? Having seen support for the Liberal Democrats deflate at the polling stations more quickly than a balloon in a pin factory, he now faces the most important political decision of his life. Does he trust the Tories enough to believe [...]

Change is the word you’ll have heard most around this election. It’s actually become a fetish – something that people are obsessed with, without rationally thinking exactly what the kind of change it is that they want – as I blogged about in a series of posts beginning here, and as Bill Bailey has put [...]

A very very good speech given yesterday by Gordon Brown at the Citizens UK event in Central London, where each leader spoke separately. Listen, he may be a lame duck, and will likely not be leader come Thursday – but listen to the issues here and ask if you want a Conservative administration that will [...]

Two articles struck me from yesterday’s Observer. Firstly, a long piece about David Simon’s new series, Treme. In it, reflecting on The Wire, the article notes: Over the years, in scores of interviews, Simon has consistently made the point that The Wire was a show with an editorial agenda, a polemic about “the America that [...]