Sentences with phrase «control freakery»

Indie authors often have an edge of control freakery... well, I do!

The second part — what's with this control freakery?

But many will dismiss lifelogging as navel - gazing or control freakery.

I don't know how well I achieved my objectives (one of which was to get my control freakery under control — Well, sometimes I'm just right, OK?!)

A PLP that currently lacks a leadership role and has been undermined and weakened by political and cultural changes, public disapproval of politicians in general, and the control freakery and internecine battles of the New Labour years.

KC says that a culture of «control freakery» was being introduced to Westminster on a wide scale since New Labour came in.

In a jibe at what critics see as Mr Brown's control freakery, Mr Milburn calls on him to change the culture of Labour Party politics and to follow Barack Obama's lead by adopting an open, engaging politics «that favours dialogue over monologue».

The cliche about New Labour «control freakery» was not a fiction.

How will you shackle the control freakery» that obsesses the Labour Party apparatchiks and that can lead to shortlists for PPCs being dictated by head office rather than by the membership?

Labour could turn itself into a grassroots movement channeling the passion of potential supporters - but its control freakery stops it even trying

But where has this control freakery got Labour?

Not exact matches

Ally that to Brown's appalling inability to perform U-turns adroitly, and his intransigence and inability to admit error over his pet projects, and it's the database / surveillance / control - freakery of his cherished Transformational Govt programme that is the hugest block to any coalition, and I'd say it's an immovable block.

Moreover, it smacks of the control - freakery he deplored in previous leaders.

Android users can also buy books from the estore directly through their app, but Apple's strict control - freakery — the same neuroticism that keeps you from being able to check out stupid cat videos on YouTube on your iPad — means you can browse on your phone but have to get yourself to a real computer to download anything.

Paranoid control - freakery; an obsessional hatred of any criticism or contradiction; the lust to character - assassinate anyone even suspected of it; a compulsion to control or at least manipulate the media... the majority of the rank and file prefer to face the wall while the jack - booted gentlemen ride by.»