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A more dangerous oaf
2008-03-04 21:56:00
I am not fan on Harriet Harman, and her closing speech to Labour Party Spring Conference this weekend reminded me why she is a bad deputy leader and an embarrassment to the party.My primary problem is not her desperately partisan attitude to the London elections - that is expected, given the closeness between the candidates. Rather, I was put off by her attitude towards women and ethnic minorities. There was a long passage about the need for more councillors from certain demographics, but it was epitomised in one sentence: But we are not complacent. We must, and will, go further.And we need more asian women represented as councillors.Asian women who are a force for good in their families, in their local economy and in their local communities - we need you in our local councils to be a force for good bringing our communities together.This tone is not helpful. It is lumping individuals into 'communities' based on their gender or their ethnicity, not treating them as individuals. Har...
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Binge morality
2008-03-03 22:25:00
Tim Hames criticises the government's reported intentions to tactically increase tax on alcohol, specifically to attack "middle class wine drinkers". He asks whether the damage of stay-at-home 'binging' is a severe as crawling around the streets at 3am, and whether increasing taxation is justified or whether it is simply an excuse to increase revenue: It is also a fraudulent exercise in terms of policy. What supposed harm are “middle-class wine drinkers” doing to the rest of society? Is there any evidence that drunken fights on the streets at 3am on a Saturday are between two accountants who have hit the Châteauneuf-du-Pape too vigorously? Is the vomit in which the Daily Mail claims that Britain wades a result of 24-hour chablis bingeing? No, it is not. The middle classes, like everyone else, should be made aware of the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption - but the notion that what goes on behind their closed doors is the same as what might happen in pubs or on the pave...
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Discontent but no revolution
2008-02-28 15:50:00
Today in the Times, Peter Riddell claims "Old Labour lives" in a certain section of backbench MPs. As evidence for this claim he presents a Commons motion signed by over 65 MPs praising the "achievements" of Fidel Castro, Harriet Harman's comments on the dictator, backbench glee at the nationalisation of Northern Rock creating a “People’s Bank” and the actions of over a third of MPs who voted against the government on a Private Member's Bill (PMB) on employment rights for temporary and agency workers. The latter is presented by Riddell as a move by the trade unions to protect existing workers, a move that might damage efforts by the government to create more jobs. Riddell claims that unlike Blair, Brown does not seek conflict with these hardline backbenchers: Mr Brown does not want a fight with Labour MPs or the unions, unlike Tony Blair who relished such confrontations. The contrast between the two is less about policy – each embraces globalisation – than style. Both ar...
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Rational reform
2008-02-28 01:27:00
The Reform report released a few days ago has elicited an interesting response from Zoe Gannon, writing for the 'democratic left' pressure group Compass. She argues not only against its suggestions (which were perfectly reasonable and caricatured shamefully by Gannon) but against some old punching bags - rational choice theory and 'neo-liberalism'. I will quote it at length, as the whole piece is worth referencing:In the depths of the Cold War economic theorists struggled to create reason in the madness. They sought a model to govern and understand the escalating threat of nuclear war; the answer they found was "game theory".Game theory is based on the perception that individuals will always behave in a rational, selfish, self interested way. Based on this view the Americans created an increasingly deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons ready to destroy Russia if it launched an attack in the hope that Russia would act in its own self interest; it would not attack as long as it believ...
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All change?
2008-02-27 17:38:00
With the US Presidential nominations filtering across the Atlantic and enthusing politicos of all persuasions, Jonathan Freedland references an interesting Frank Field pamphlet on constitutional reform:One of his proposed remedies is to replicate the American mechanism of the party primary, the very process currently catalysing such drama Stateside. To be fair to Field, this is no faddish whim: he has long believed that safe parliamentary seats especially, where the real contest is in choosing the candidate for the dominant local party, should throw open their selection processes. He offers his own Birkenhead constituency, now the 15th safest in England, as a potential testbed for the idea. He imagines everybody in Birkenhead having a vote in choosing the Labour candidate, thereby forcing politicians to appeal beyond the narrow caucus of party activists. An Obama figure could storm in, build a movement, and steal Field's seat from under him. You can even imagine the stirring rhetor...
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Give me those clothes, they fit well
2008-02-26 21:24:00
A common view of the two main political parties is mentioned by Mike Ion, who writes on the Progressive about the real differences between Gordon Brown and David Cameron. He mentioned a common view about the main parties since the Blair years:In many ways political cross-dressing has dominated British politics for the past decade. Ever since Tony Blair and Gordon Brown created new Labour’s big tent and then set about erecting it firmly on the campsite of the middle ground political commentators have been arguing that both ideologically and practically, little now divides the two main parties in Britain. In today’s media dominated campaigning it is very easy for core political messages to become blurred and understandable that the electorate is often left wondering as to what are the real differences between the major parties. The confusion is exacerbated when we are consistently told that new Labour is ‘Thatcherism with a human face’ and that David Cameron is the ‘heir to...
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Bad evidence
2008-02-26 17:49:00
David Aaronovitch, writing in the Times, argues in favour of a DNA database. He uses various cases of those convicted through DNA evidence in order to justify he intrusion of privacy:As it happens I don't feel “watched” by CCTV, and I think it is a paranoid fantasy to imagine that we are “under surveillance” in the way that informers kept the Stasi up to date with the conversations of their subjects. I also believe it is perverse to shun biometrics that merely give real effect to ineffective measures we have long taken in this country, such as insisting on car numberplates and passport photos. “We should not hold information on innocent people,” says that unlikely IDPer, David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, lest we become “a nation of suspects”. On that basis let us burn our passports and smash our numberplates...So we'll want something. But the trouble is that when we make some databases arbitrary, as the DNA database currently is, then we effectively discrimin...
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No heroine of the left
2008-02-25 15:24:00
Harriet Harman has embarrassed all who align themselves with the left by proclaiming Fidel Castro to be a "hero of the left". Clearly, her definition of what it means to be left differs greatly from any reasonable progressive. As Daniel Finkelstein points out, there are at least ten reasons for despising the despot.These include sending homosexual to forced labour camps, executing those who attempt to leave Cuba, urging Khrushchev to launch a nuclear first strike against America, holding political prisoners (316 in 2006), banning independent labour unions, holding uncontested elections, restricting access to the Internet, raiding libraries and arresting librarians, blocking any freedom within the economy, and supporting "the despicable Mengistu in Ethiopia, which cost enormous number of lives during the war with Somalia."By these criteria, the left Harman lauds must be very different to the left democrats support. It is a left that is totalitarian, intolerant, conservative and warmo...
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Deciding how to teach
2008-02-25 14:33:00
Freedom of management can transform failing schools into successful academies, according to a new Reform report (pdf). Richard Tice, Chairman of Governors at Northampton Academy, describes his task and the role of management in turning his school around. He goes on to suggest that management of schools should be freer and more independent, and that the freedom of academies should be rolled out across state schools:The report shows how the academy programme and the independent model of governance have introduced vital new impetus through new leadership, freedom of management and innovation. The problems of improving discipline are explored in depth, with the difficulties of appeals and then appeals on appeals. There is a strong focus on supporting and improving teaching and on the restraints of the National Curriculum and over-testing...Whilst the academy programme is right in concept, there continue to be a number of practical and systemic issues that prevent academy leaders from ha...

Hezbollah stop no wars
2008-02-24 21:50:00
Norman offers a reminder of the bizarre nature of some anti-Israeli sentiment: (1) Iran predicts the destruction of Israel. (2) Hezbollah foresees the disappearance of Israel - which sounds a bit gentler but isn't necessarily. (3) Benny Morris reminds readers of the Irish Times (subscription only, but see also here) that Israel's enemies have been threatening its end since the very inception of the state.And yet there are those who prefer to believe that the conflict in the region is uniquely of Israel's making. Only one assumption can validate that preference: the assumption, namely, of the non-legitimacy of the state of Israel. Oliver Kamm also responds to Hassan Nasrallah's claims that disappearance of Israel is "inevitable"; considering the scale of threat Hezbollah represent, Nasrallah's comments should be taken seriously:Hezbollah threatens Israel in a sense I wrote about in the wake of Israel's intervention in Lebanon 18 months ago: "UN security council reso...
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Fees or taxes
2008-02-22 17:30:00
I have before written about the benefits of top-up fees, an issue that never fails to rile students of most political persuasions:It is right that students should pay towards their degree through tuition fees, a mechanism that ensures universities must appeal to students and not simply survive despite being irrelevant. It also ensures choice and high standards, and means no one can complain about 'Mickey Mouse degrees' when individuals choose to pay for them.This issue has not disappeared since top-up fees were introduced in 2006/07. The cap of £3,000 per year has been challenged by Vice-Chancellors across the UK, who want the cap raised so they can raise more money. The Russell Group has been especially adamant that it needs to raise more money in the face of competition from abroad. With a review of fees due in 2009, lobbying will intensify for the cap to be raised above £3,000. The NUS is campaigning against such an increase.It is worth remembering that top-up fees only incre...
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Enforcing equality
2008-02-21 14:29:00
Megan McArdle references Tyler Cowen in pointing out the plight of those who want to supplement their NHS treatment privately:Patients have been paying extra for treatments not covered by the NHS, while still getting the majority of their treatment on the government's dime. Now the NHS is cracking down."Patients “cannot, in one episode of treatment, be treated on the N.H.S. and then allowed, as part of the same episode and the same treatment, to pay money for more drugs,” the health secretary, Alan Johnson, told Parliament."The article is about an important problem for public health systems: politically, they find it very hard to tolerate any inequality of access to treatment, but even harder to finance all the treatment people might demand, or to forbid rich people to take life-saving actions. But it hints at another problem for Europe's health care systems. It strikes me that for a long time Europe managed to keep its health care costs down because patients had relatively li...
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Something of nothing
2008-02-20 20:43:00
Gordon Brown is attempting to repair relations with Barack Obama after apparently pushing him away over the summer - ironically, a mistake his predecessor did not make. The Times reports:Gordon Brown is frantically trying to forge links with Barack Obama, having previously turned down the chance of a high-profile meeting with the US presidential contender at Downing Street last summer.The Times understands there are concerns at the highest level in Whitehall that Britain does not have the relationship that it wants with Mr Obama — who has surged ahead of Hillary Clinton to become the front-runner for the Democratic nomination...One said: “Downing Street pushed [Obama] away.” Another put it more colloquially, saying: “They got the willies about the whole thing.”...“We’re not getting a lot of purchase,” an official said. “We have excellent contacts with John McCain [the expected Republican nominee] and Hillary Clinton. But the Obama campaign has clammed up a bit.”....

Proving yourself good enough
2008-02-20 14:09:00
Nick Robinson wonders what exactly the benefits are of an immigrant achieving British citizenship:What's the point in becoming a British citizen? Yes, you get a passport and access to consular services. Yes, you get the right to vote. But what else? The answer is - not much.Thus many immigrants choose never to become citizens and never to go through the English tests, the citizenship ceremonies and all the rest of the things dreamt up by politicians to foster integration.This is a good point, as it challenges the assumption that all immigrants want to become British citizens. If gaining citizenship is made even harder, fewer migrants may opt for citizenship and remain here on their visas.It is worth remembering that many immigrants do not seek citizenship. They come to Britain temporarily, work then return home. Moreover, as the benefits of staying in Britain decrease (i.e., the economy begins to tighten up, growth slows, employment drops, native hostility increases), many more wil...
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Parent power
2008-02-19 19:09:00
Alex Tabarrok (via the Adam Smith Institute blog) has an interesting example of the success of school vouchers at improving standards in failing schools:Thus, this paper shows two things. First, that the test scores of the students in the public schools improved when vouchers gave the schools better incentives to perform. Second, at least some of the improvement comes from changes in how students are taught....It is not true that "nothing can be done to improve the schools." Incentives matter.It seems to provide evidence for the idea that vouchers (i.e., marketisation) provides incentives for improvements in failing schools, while also enabling pupils to escape those failing public schools and enter better private schools. As expected, schools reacted to incentives, even when they were as weak as they were on Florida.For anyone serious about equality of opportunity and parental choice, vouchers provide a good mechanism for ensuring both these aims are achieved (as I have argued b...
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Urgently seeking journalists
2008-02-19 18:55:00
As has been widely noted, Alex Hilton has uncovered a rather bizarre leaked email and posted it on LabourHome. It originates from the Daily Mail journalist Diana Appleyard, who is searching for case studies, which is not an usual occurrence. Assuming it is real, what is striking is how cynical she is when approaching the issue:-----Original Message-----From: rsreply@dwpub.com [mailto:rsreply@dwpub.com]Sent: 13 February 2008 15:57To:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxSubject: Response Source - Diana Appleyard , Daily Mail (Request for personal case study) PUBLICATION: Daily Mail (Request for personal case study)JOURNALIST: Diana Appleyard (staff)DEADLINE: 14-February-2008 16:00QUERY: I am urgently looking for anonymous horror stories of people who have employed Eastern European staff, only for them to steal from them, disappear, or have lied about their resident status. We can pay you £100 for taking part, and I promise it will be anonymous, just a quick phone call. Could you ema...
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Change the rules so I win
2008-02-19 12:31:00
Jeff Weintraub assesses the rules-based issues facing the Democratic Primary, focusing on the issues of superdelegates and those causes and primaries in Michigan and Florida:The idea that the superdelegates were supposed to exercise "independent judgment" about what was best for the party was a quite deliberate part of the original plan. but apparently it has just occurred to many party notables, the commentariat, and bewildered ordinary citizens that this could result in having the superdelegates overrule the aggregate outcome of the primaries and caucuses. That doesn't seem democratically acceptable to many people ... but if it would be illegitimate in principle, then why have "superdelegates" at all?...I suppose it's possible that, in the unlikely event that either Clinton or Obama establishes a commanding lead in pledged delegates over the next several months, then a decisive majority of superdelegates might rally to the front-runner in order to forestall a fight at the conven...
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Greenshirts?
2008-02-18 22:37:00
Anti-fascists are usually relentless in their pursuit of anything that might be assuming the mantle of fascism for the twenty-first century. They vigorously, and rightly, attack the BNP wherever their odious politics may be found. They also, wrongly, sometimes seek to deny the BNP and other free organisations their basic democratic rights (i.e., freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of a private organisation to invite whoever they please) in the name of 'no platform for the BNP'. However, Rob Johnston suggests that they may have missed out on an unconsciously fascist organisation: the Green Party. The whole piece is worth reading, but an excerpt will suffice:To solve these "problems" the Green Party calls for an international "new order" to address a "global economic … cris[i]s" [24]. That language requires a very special kind of historical ignorance. Can no one in the Green Party have noticed that the last ideology to emphasise the spiritual oneness of man and nature ...

A pair of tortoises
2008-02-18 21:20:00
UK Polling Report's poll tracker shows things look bad for Labour in terms of voting intention. The Conservatives have a lead of nine percentage points in the latest YouGov poll. Labour have not led since October 2007 (with two exceptions: Populus on 4th November and Ipsos-MORI on 23rd January).A collection of problems have contributed to this slow descent. First has been the long-running Northern Rock crisis, which the government has finally acted on by nationalising the ailing bank until it can sell it, and the associated erosion of Labour's reputation for economic competence. Second have been scandals and sleaze - notably Peter Hain's funding problems and the loss of far too much data. Third has been the lack of real change between Blair and Brown, meaning that when Brown's honeymoon period ended he was left with very little to win voters over with. Add the failure to call an election, and there is an image of an indecisive Prime Minister (an image the Northern Rock fiasco wi...
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The benefits of local food: why did we ever leave it?
2008-02-17 17:45:00
India Knight, writing in The Times, falls into an old trap as she lambastes supermarkets and propounds the benefits of shopping locally: We are complete imbeciles when it comes to supermarkets: we still think, by and large, that they are doing us a kindness by existing. I don’t say this wearing an eco-warrior, anticapitalist, down-with-big-business hat, but rather as a consumer with a family who has, until recently, relied heavily on the weekly supermarket shop. I realise I am speaking from a fortunate standpoint: I can afford to pay a little more for organic and locally sourced ingredients, and I use my local butcher and fishmonger (which I’m lucky to have: both are a dying breed) because I would rather eat fantastic meat once a week than mechanically recovered slop on a daily basis. But actually I question the whole “value” status of supermarkets, not least because whenever I go to one I end up buying a pile of stuff I don’t actually need or, indeed, want; stuff that, mo...
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What you see and what you get
2008-02-16 15:12:00
Political Betting notes an interesting trend in the style of the Prime Minister:Hardly a day seems to go by without Brown making one announcement or another with the minister responsible being cut out. Why does he feel he has to do everything himself?For as well as the impression that Labour’s a “one man band” Brown’s approach reinforces the Osborne-Cameron strategy of portraying him an obsessive control freak. He looks like the nightmare boss who takes all the credit when things go right but distributes downwards all the blame for failures.This could have serious consequences at the general election. Brown cannot go to the country with him being the only Labour face that the public recognises. There have to be others there and these need to be built up now. For starters John Denham and Alan Johnson need to be given more prominent roles.Once again, Brown makes himself look like a top-down micro-manager who will not trust his ministers with anything of real importance. Once a...

A humble suggestion and a massage for the ego
2008-02-15 19:18:00
Months ago, I wrote a post critical of Ron Paul for being so blind to the realities of British politics that he assumed Tony Blair to be a raving, freedom-hating socialism. I argued that such a man would be unsuited to leading the US if he had so little idea of the realities of foreign politics. I also questioned his 'libertarian' credentials and argued he was just an extremist Republican rather than a radical.Now that voting is under way to decide on the Republican nomination, it appears Ron Paul's campaign was just a small number of people shouting very loud. Currently, overall results indicate he has picked up just 16 delegates to McCain's 830 and Huckabee's 217. Of the remaining candidates, he is last. America has the good sense not to elect an extremist to the White House and the Internet is not the be all and end all of political campaigning in 2008.On the Democratic side, things remain tight between Clinton and Obama. I would prefer to see Obama in the White House, and f...
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Not so simple
2008-02-15 18:30:00
Prodicus (via the Adam Smith Institute blog)quotes a television cook who actually has something of worth to say about organic food, environmentalism and the third world. Delia Smith, on the Today Programme, is summarised as saying:I don't do food politics - I'm a cook.I don't do organic - I would rather poor people who can't afford expensive organic food simply had something nutritious to eat.There are people all over the world doing some of our food preparation for us and earning a living doing it. I'll certainly buy it if it's good, nutritious food.Of course I'm aware of the food miles argument but if the whole world went that way the situation in the developing world would be far, far worse.I love shelled green peas in February and buying them from Kenyan farmers means that their familes have enough to eat.It's confusing. How do I decide between helping that Kenyan farmer to feed his family and reducing emissions? There aren't any simple answers.The points about organic ...
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Liberty is not just for those in the West
2008-02-13 17:21:00
David Miliband has explained that Labour will not be abandoning its internationalism simply because of the tactical errors made in Iraq and the lengthy process of democratisation in Afghanistan. The Times reports: “I am unapologetic about a mission to help democracy spread through the world,” he will tell his audience at St Hugh's College.Debate and disagreement over the bruising military experience in Iraq had “clouded the debate about promoting democracy around the world. I understand the doubts about Iraq and Afghanistan and the deep concern at the mistakes made. But my plea is that we do not let division over those conflicts obscure our national interest, never mind our moral impulse, in supporting movements for democracy.”Mr Miliband's message may be heard most keenly in China. He is due to visit the country in a fortnight's time and anchored his thesis against the “end of history” world view around it, noting that “since the Millennium there has been a pause i...
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Rational welfare
2008-02-04 18:51:00
As Super Tuesday is just around the corner, it is worth reading Daniel Koffler's piece on Comment is Free last month, where he claims Obama is a "left libertarian" candidate:Instead of recommending traditional welfare-state liberalism as a solvent for socioeconomic inequalities and dislocations, Goolsbee promotes programmes to essentially democratise the market, protecting and where possible expanding freedom of choice, while simultaneously creating rational, self-interested incentives for individuals to participate in solving collective problems. No wonder, then, that Obama's healthcare plan is specifically designed to give people good reason to buy in, without coercing them. Likewise, as George Will reported in a column from October, Goolsbee's proposal for reducing income inequality is to lower barriers to higher education, the primary factor in determining future earnings, and noticeably does not rely on state interventions in the market, which can succeed at equalising incom...
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Discriminate away
2008-02-03 22:11:00
The Sunday Times reports on the growing use of selection lotteries in schools and the problem of how schools can decide who to admit: Why is the educational system apparently turning its back on the long-established use of catchment areas? What will this mean for parents who have been told by successive governments that choice in their child’s education is paramount and how far will the policy spread? THE roots of the new enthusiasm for lotteries lie in the clash of political ideologies: between the principle of choice established under the last Tory government and the social engineering that has come to permeate the new Labour educational agenda...Labour, which had pledged to reduce social inequalities through “fair” access to education, decided to act. It started by introducing a new admissions code last year to ensure that top schools do not protect their league table standings by favouring children from middle-class families.The code bans not only overt selection but also ...

Middle-class rebels
2008-01-31 13:43:00
A recent article in Foreign Policy debunks a common myth about suicide bombers. They are not poor or bloodthirsty. They are quiet, middle-class types whose introversion lends them to being successful:The fact that suicide bombers are usually mild-mannered members of the middle class seems counterintuitive. After all, the middle class tend to be well-educated, well-behaved, good family members—nothing like the bloodthirsty tough guys or criminals we imagine when we think of terrorists. They bear little resemblance to English football hooligans or rabble-rousers. No other form of violence has a higher proportion of females than suicide bombers, even though females are usually more conformist than males.Why is this so? I suggest it is because suicide bombing is the easiest form of violence for conventional middle-class people to carry out, if they decide to commit violence at all...But suicide bombers are different. They usually face their victims alone. They neither threaten their e...
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Blair redux
2008-01-30 18:04:00
The Observer reports that James Purnell is endorsing Blair ite welfare reform as Gordon Brown appears to be warming to his predecessor's ideas:James Purnell, the new Work and Pensions Secretary, who will unveil the plan with the Prime Minister tomorrow, today hails the move and makes the extraordinary claim that Brown should now be seen as the true 'heir to Blair'.'Gordon Brown is clearly the heir to Blair,' Purnell, a protege of the former Prime Minister, said. 'They created New Labour together and he is building on the reforms of the last 10 years but there is unfinished business' of reform...Purnell told The Observer that the government will endorse the [Freud] report and go further. In language that would once have sparked war between the Blair and Brown camps, Purnell said that Labour is 'ideologically neutral' between the three sectors - private, public and voluntary. 'Progressives want to make the world a better place. If people can do that using the private sector, ...

You can't watch that, I don't like it
2008-01-27 18:12:00
A group of MPs wants Gordon Brown to allow greater powers of appeal against decisions made by the British Board of Film Classification, reports The Times:FILMS with graphic violence, including one simulating the rape, torture and incineration of concentration camp victims, are being freely sold on the high street, prompting demands by MPs for a reform of the censorship laws.SS Experiment Camp is one of a clutch of violent films banned 20 years ago by the director of public prosecutions that have been approved for general release by Britain’s film censors and are on sale in shops.The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) said there was no evidence that the film causes harm to viewers, adding that “there is nothing in this film that anybody should have any concerns about”. The board claims that sensibilities toward on-screen violence have changed since the film was banned.However, MPs have questioned the censors’ judgment and their greater tolerance of films and video ga...
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Leading London
2008-01-20 19:18:00
Oliver Kamm and Nick Cohen offer a timely reminder of just how odious the Mayor of London 's politics are. Kamm writes:The nadir was reached, for me at least, when Livingstone addressed a demonstration against Israel's war in Lebanon in 1982, and The Observer asked him if he believed the Jews had a right to a state. He answered that they did not. I couldn't believe what I was reading. I opposed the Lebanon War of that year, and have never changed my mind on it. But my reasons were not Livingstone's case. Livingstone's position was - as an SDP member of the GLC and Times columnist, Ann Sofer, pointed out at the time - indistinguishable on that issue from the views of the National Front...I could go on and on. But read Nick, read Martin (the comments section of whose blog appears to have been hijacked by the Scientologists), and read Agnès, and you will see what I mean. We are all on the Left, and we are concerned. Livingstone's record has never till now been properly examined, ...
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