The labour force figures out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics this morning at least tell us that things are not getting worse.
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Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Con-LibDems actually want to limit CCTV? Well blow me down.
As it turned out, both the Conservatives and the Lib-Dems said enough was enough on Britain’s Orwellian surveillance state. Who’d a thunk it?
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Fingers crossed for a full-blown constitutional crisis
In 24 hours, David Cameron may be Britian’s Prime Minister presumptive. But millions are hoping that a chaotic and unresolved result will open the space for new possibilities, and fast.
Guy Rundle: 24 hours till polls open, people
A day out from the UK election: Brown has just given his best performance ever, Cameron says he’ll campaign through the night, and Clegg is looking as real as burning plastic.
Tom Nairn: the Toad election
What the U.K. Election debate and its impact have pointed to is surely a need for revolution. The Great-British identity is now more shaky and imponderable than that of Australia or EU nations, writes Tom Nairn.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Everything would be fine if it weren’t for these immigrants
Has any polity in history ever been more grievously split between its dominant mood, whatever one thinks of it, and its political/admin/media elite?
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Leeds — the best and worst of new Labour
The Labour guy was good, he was too good, he gave his spiel like he’d done a thousand times before, the Tory kid sounded like he was presenting Q3 figures for the south-east regional health centre, and the Lib Dem, well she tried.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Nick ‘Jesus’ Clegg, Watford, and waffles
It’s bollocks that Nick Clegg is an Obama figure, even if he did hold his own in the debate.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: pocket guide to the British election — part two
OK, so let’s recap the latest in the UK election: 650 seats up for grabs, about 85% in England, Labour currently holding 345, the Tories 193, the Lib-Dems 63, various others 32, Northern Ireland 18. Now what?
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: has the Right lost its freakin’ mind?
Has the Right gone completely bonkers? Not merely the crazy tea-partiers in the US, or the rolling Tony Abbott freakshow in Oz, but now Italy and the UK as well?
Guy Rundle: Gordon Brown is tap dancing like an old hoofer
Gordon Brown is desperate to find anything that works. After all, you’ve got to keep moving, listen to criticism, not be put off by it, especially when you’re up against the man putting a new unformed area of flesh on Tory politics.
The end of retirement?
As humans live longer and longer, and the Boomer generation begin to enter their twilight yeats, the whole idea of retirement is increasingly becoming an anachronism.
NZ election: Maori Party caught in the middle
The Greens and Progressives say they will not work with National. Act and United Future will only work with National. New Zealand First will work with Labour or National, but National says it will not work with the “walking soap opera” that is Winston Peters. That leaves only the Maori Party willing and able to negotiate with both major parties, writes Tim Watkin.
