Gewerkschaftler suggested this a while back and it's as good an idea now as it was then. Whatever else those of us on the left need some hope, need some tangible achievements to hold on to, something that gives a sense of how things can be made better: “I suggest this blog should have a regular (weekly) slot where people can post happenings at the personal or political level that gives them hope that we’re perhaps not going to hell in a handbasket as quickly as we thought. Or as the phlegmatic Germans put it “hope dies last”.” Any contributions this week?

Alt: Brigadier from Doctor Who: a man in in early middle age, white with black hair and a slender moustache, wearing a British Army uniform. He is saying with a soldier’s phlegmatic delivery: “Well, here we go again”