Something good is going come out of the riots: people care about them. No news event since the 1980s has had people so aroused to read the news and try to really understand what has been happening. The events of recent weeks are a challenge to all traditional partisan narratives, and, to put it simply, [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, conservatives, davidcameron, labour, spendingcuts, tonyblair, ukpolitics on August 16th, 2011 | No Comments »
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When Edwina Currie visited Clare Politics in October, she donated a copy of Sarah from Alaska, which will soon be finding its way – autographed by its donor – into the Forbes Mellon Library. It gives a gripping account of the caffeine-fuelled chaos of the McCain/Palin campaign, which palpably fell apart in its final weeks [...]
Filed under: barackobama, election2012, johnmccain, sarahpalin on March 26th, 2011 | No Comments »
Nine bids were put forward to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. The bids that received the best technical reports from FIFA – the best bids, objectively the best, the bids that would have won if the IOC had been judging – were England for 2018 and Australia for 2022. The two bids [...]
Filed under: corruption, football, middle east, russia, sleaze, southafrica, sport on December 9th, 2010 | No Comments »
I’ve spent the last few days squirming on behalf of India, a country I fell in love with during the four months I spent there in 2008. There have been many stories of India’s apparently imminent failure to deliver a successful Commonwealth Games, stories that I know will provoke utter mortification in that intensely patriotic [...]
Filed under: davidcameron, davidmiliband, foreignpolicy, india, media, sport on September 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
All five Labour leadership candidates are interviewed in this Saturday’s Independent. It could almost be a spoof from Tory head office. Ed and David give identical answers more than once: closer to ‘Two Little Boys’ than Cain and Abel. Both of them name their parents as the greatest influence on their political careers. Diane Abbott [...]
Filed under: davidmiliband, edmiliband, labour, ukpolitics on August 30th, 2010 | No Comments »
When the exit polls came in on election night I saw the same reaction from everyone watching: total shock. Their astonishment was not at the projected hung Parliament we had all been expecting, or at the Tory lead over Labour, but at the thought that the Lib Dems, whose ascendancy had apparently been the story [...]
Filed under: conservatives, labour, libdems, ukpolitics on May 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »
The Labour Party is at a crossroads. It has lost an election, and lost power, but its position is far from disastrous. Labour has nearly a hundred more MPs than the Tories did in 1997, and its in-fighting over the last few years has been nowhere near as debilitating as Tory civil war was in [...]
Filed under: labour, ukpolitics on May 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
The surge of support for the Liberal Democrats over the last week is proof of an extraordinary political coup, pulled off by the Labour Party. When people cast their votes on May 6th they will cast them not for or against the government, but for or against the Conservatives. David Cameron is the central figure [...]
Filed under: conservatives, davidcameron, labour, libdems, ukpolitics on April 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »
