Comment on current affairs

Below you will find the latest ruminations from Opine. The idea is to produce analysis and opinion - delivered with a collective voice and character that matter more than the identities of individual contributors. This way there can be no pretence that the author is more important than the people and events they are writing about.

Opine

[oh-pahyn]

–vb/ to hold or express an opinion.

[Origin: 1575–85; < L opīnārī to think, deem]

 

 

 

Word of the week

 

Osculation

 

The act of kissing, also; a kiss

29 May, 2009

Spare a thought...

 

In light of the expenses scandal:

 

A short plea to spare a thought for the good MPs who are left in the building.

Opine will no longer be updated for the foreseeable future. Work and other commitments have meant there is no longer sufficient time to keep the site up to the standards we expect.

 

This is not the beginning of the end. It is merely the end of the beginning.

Gone fishin’

Matt Mulley, former parliamentary staffer to David Taylor MP, pays tribute to the "Amiable, principled, rumpled backbencher whose ties never match his shirts."