"They present an image of cooking, primping and singing, as if it were in some way life-fulfilling, " Socialist Alternative editor Michael Koschitzki, 27, told German newspaper Der Spiegel.

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One is that Mr Blair is enough of a liberal to have grabbed the very role that Grimond mapped out for his own lot as the non-socialist alternative to the Conservatives.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot