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 »

In recent posts I’ve been sceptical about an anyone-but-Gordon succession for Labour after Blair. However, this book review by David Miliband on Anthony Gidden’s new book is well worth reading.
I’m very impressed by Miliband’s diagnosis of New Labour’s failings. My concern about Miliband has been that I couldn’t see what he had to offer [...]

Filed under: davidcameron, davidmiliband, gordonbrown, labour, ukpolitics on March 26th, 2007 | No Comments »