Demos

Theme : polticalparties

giddy for Giddy "Britain is a sophisticated 21st-century society, but we still make do with a crude 19th-century system of limited and indirect democracy." This is Saira Khan. Apparently she was in a TV programme called The Apprentice. This was a sort of staged masochism where contestents tried to make money in "real life situations" before being ritually humiliated Alan Sugar. In anycase the experience doesn't seem to have broken Saira. She has an article in The Times today... from : charlietims 4th September 2006
Not Quite Proving you can't keep a good man down, a lucid Tom Bentley bounced back after being ejected from the Demosphere last week, by showing up on the Today program this morning to talk about cross-dressing politics with David Aaronovitch. You can listen again here. It's the 8.55 slot you want to listen to. from : charlietims 31st July 2006