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Goodbye, big society
Running behind on literally everything, even drinking, but I must just share with you the new Tory election poster, courtesy of Tory Bear: Brilliant, ain’t it? I think he’s actually just punched a...
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This is how we know we’re right
Let’s be clear: I am trying very hard not to romanticise. I am trying to do what Lib Dems keep exhorting each other to do, which is keep your feet on the ground, and also keep calm and carry on. Which...
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EVERYONE DEAD BY TEATIME
With apologies to the Daily Mash. Here are some of the headlines you can expect to see tomorrow (or if you’re surgically attached to the internet, tonight): HUNG PARLIAMENT WILL CAUSE GREEK-STYLE...
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Arise, geeks
In the darkest hour of the night, around 4am when Evan Harris lost his seat, someone reminded me of this Woody Allen quote: People get the government they deserve. Unfortunately, I get the government...
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URGENT: Have your say on what Lib Dems should do next
If you hang around the yellow bit of the internet much you’ll know that the Lib Dem Voice server is utterly borked, owing to a surfeit of people trying to get on there to tell other people what they...
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Where’s the offer we can’t refuse?
I keep being told by Labour commentators and supporters that for the Lib Dems to do a deal with the Conservatives would be to walk away from the only chance of the electoral reform that the Lib Dems...
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Get this man to Lib Dem conference!
A couplet of TED talks from Sir Ken Robinson. The first is from 2006: The second is from this year: (In a manner of speaking Ken Robinson has already been to Lib Dem conference, because I’m pretty sure...
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What exactly are these bozos trying to achieve here?
Good god, it’s a mess in here. *kicks skeletons of former readers aside* I’m only picking my way back in through the cobwebs to ask, seriously now, what on earth the NUS/the Campaign for Nice Pixies...
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Why might black students be under-represented at Oxbridge?
Equality and diversity at tertiary education level are a tangled set of important and emotive issues. Needless to say, David Lammy has made a complete dog whistling breakfast of the whole thing....
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The ways of the ancestors
The British Psychology Society research blog is reporting on an ace little piece of research about the psychological benefits of thinking about your ancestors, which I’m going to henceforth assume...
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Housing the Citizenry
You are tenacious so-and-sos, you lot. I still get as many hits here at PRoM on a bad day as I get on a good day at my new gaff. A not inconsiderable factor is that this post about political apathy...
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Is it safe to talk like an anarchist again?
Public intellectualism has its own rhythms. This week’s special guest on Things Alix Mortimer Has Been Saying in the Pub Since 2007 is David Graeber, who asked, here first and then more recently and I...
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Letter to a Known Soldier
Letter to an Unknown Soldier project. Dear Percy, I’m supposed to be writing to an Unknown Soldier apparently, but I couldn’t think of anything to say to him. So I thought I’d write to you instead. It...
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On being a bitrovert
As is well known in the Lib-Dem-and-hangers-on blogosphere (rather more hangers-on than Lib Dems these days, and soon presumably just hangers), James Graham is a genius. So it need surprise no-one that...
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Sharing and hoarding
Economists and their fellow travellers are great at churning out neat little books with titles using the format of [Noun]ification: how [Noun] is [Verb]ing the World, and Why It Matters (And How You...
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Can computers replace historians?
This Bank Holiday weekend’s Question To Which The Answer Is No And Which Successfully Winds Up Alix Mortimer (#QTWTAINAWSWUAM – it’ll never catch on, though it clearly should) is this one from the...
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Can you teach through the medium of Stuff?
If I were unbearably cynical, I would suggest that the Teaching History with 100 Objects project was an attempt to co-opt a major national institution into supporting a particular cast of goverment...
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Why do people cry on Who Do You Think You Are?
Genealogy is, when I think about it, the thing I have been doing longer than I’ve been doing pretty much anything else – over twenty years. This fact is surprising to me when I remember it, because I...
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Unreviewed! Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind
There are two kinds of popular history book: the cameo and the synthesis. Historians find it easy to fit cameos into their working lives. They produce exquisite little portraits of a family in Wars of...
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Yes/No demographics and the conservatism of the young
Ashcroft’s breakdown of Yes/No voting is interesting if you like baseless tossed-off morning-after speculation (which you do, you dawg). Incidentally, Martin Kettle suggested at some bleary godless...
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