Here’s a photo of George Osborne being presented with a ready meal (spaghetti) – which he refuses to say whether he’d eat or not (our guess is no, regardless of any horse content) (via: @bbcpeterH):
He’s certainly no John Gummer, who famously fed his four year old daughter a beef burger at the height of the BSE scandal:
The crisis in Ukraine brings us to the governance of London. For us, citizens of a country whose capital city is a crossroads for global capital, foreign policy does not just happen out there. British politicians anxiously vex about their ‘impotence’ in making a difference overseas, often imagining the only effective action is to deploy force. It never is. Violence is always an impotent tool. As Iraq and Afghanistan show, the idea that missile strikes and small, short-term armies of […]
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Ed Miliband will confirm this morning what has long been assumed – he will not pledge an EU referendum. In an op-ed for the FT(£) published today, Miliband states that Labour’s position on Europe is “clear”. That’s evidently a matter of opinion, as the pre-briefing around his speech has led the Mirror to claim Miliband is pledging a referendum, whilst the FT claims that he isn’t. The FT are largely right on this one. Miliband has no intention of going […]
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There’s been plenty of coverage of Ed Miliband (almost) ruling out an EU referendum today (of which more on LabourList this morning), but there’s been relatively little coverage of the six ways in which Labour wants to change Europe (which Miliband will outline in his speech this morning). Crucially, none of these changes should require a treaty change. Here are those proposed changes – as outlined by the party: Lengthen the time between a country joining the EU and […]
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This weekend Ed Miliband made a fairly quiet announcement, after a trip to Afghanistan, that Labour would make it a specific criminal offence “to discriminate against members of the armed forces”. He proposed to change the law so a physical or verbal assault upon a member of the Armed Forces would be classed as an aggravated crime, where being in the Armed Forces was the motive for that assault. The press office told me Labour would introduce this in the […]
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These are clearly tough times for the Co-operative Group. Something has clearly gone wrong in the business and real change will be needed to put things right. The outgoing Chief Executive, Euan Sutherland is obviously a man of considerable intellect and ability. However, he clearly feels that he cannot be a successful CEO for the Co-operative Group and therefore it is right that he has resigned. The Co-operative Group is an important British business. It is a presence in every […]
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