Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Sunday 13 February 2011
Internal Affairs
The more attention paid to internships and the like, the better. Access to things like politics and the media is now restricted to those who can work for little or no pay after university, and often during the university vacations as well. Britain has now descended into self-parody, in which everyone who is anyone has known each other since they were 19 at the oldest, and routinely a great deal younger than that. Any figure or movement that emerges from outside the Golden Circle is completely ignored, and thus killed off. Even David Miliband or George Osborne can expect to be treated as a serious figure, something completely unimaginable when there was proper competition.
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