John Howarth - Journalism

Politics

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  • Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
  • A Questionnaire of Addiction

  • Woolly-minded web surveys aside, when there is an election I have to vote for the best candidate – even if one would have preferred others to stand. The questionnaires are still fun though.

  • Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
  • Labour’s Endangered Species

  • Between the five Labour leadership candidates the only experience of the private sector is a little scribbling and a few TV appearances. Oxbridge attendance, as ever, seems compulsory.

  • Sunday, May 30th, 2010
  • Laws Unto Himself

  • From the language of spin to plain old English, “personal tragedy” roughly translates as “what a pity he got found out” while “good and honourable man” translates literally to “thanks for falling on your sword and getting us all off the hook mate”.

  • Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
  • Hung Up – Not Very Likely

  • A hung parliament may be less likely than people think and a coalition maybe even less likely. But we might as well speculate on what’s really probable or improbable were it to happen.

  • Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
  • Moral Collapse

  • What self respecting 17 year-old would allow his mother to make such a show of him?

  • Friday, April 23rd, 2010
  • Welcome to the 1983 Show

  • Of all the elections I can remember this one is most like 1983 - but not because it’s a foregone conclusion, it isn’t.

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