Gordon Brown says he's a 'full-time MP' in Fife
I've just got round to reading Larry Elliot's interview with Gordon Brown in the Guardian magazine, which offers up several telling nuggets that tell you how the former Prime Minister views the world....
View ArticleLouise Mensch is right to make herself beautiful for her husband: only in...
I like to think I'm acclimatised to the idiosyncracies of this island nation. I've lived here for 30 years; I've married an Englishman, with whom I have an English daughter and two English stepsons....
View ArticleDavid Miliband has confirmed what we all knew: he could never be Labour leader
From my Morning Briefing: subscribe here In my office I have one of those life-sized cut outs of David Miliband holding a banana that I borrowed from the Tory press office in Manchester back in 2008....
View ArticleDavid Miliband's emigration has removed a frightful burden from his brother
David Miliband is abandoning politics because he no longer wants to be part of a soap opera, we’re told. Does the fault lie with a contemporary rapacious media that sticks its finger in open wounds and...
View ArticleThe departure of David Miliband is an event of almost no importance
Never mind the banana, or the infamous picture from 2008 of David Miliband brandishing said banana. I knew well before then that he would not be leader of the Labour party. Why? I sat through his...
View ArticleRegulating lobbyists won't solve anything
Would you say the behaviour of our parliamentarians has improved markedly over the past three years? Are MPs and peers are now holding themselves to a higher standard than before? Or, to put the...
View ArticleMaria Miller resigns: Is David Cameron out of touch?
It is one of David Cameron's strengths that he does not practice government by focus group. Seriously. He is not obsessed by the day to day fluctuations of public opinion in the way that, say, Tony...
View ArticleNigel Evans case: The police and CPS have to stop dragging innocent people...
The police have done it again. They’ve tried, and failed, to nail a senior politician. Yesterday, Nigel Evans was acquitted of a shopping list of sexual offences brought to court by Lancashire Police...
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