“Absolutely not true”: Miliband has not accepted EU job
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 David Miliband’s office has told me this afternoon that the idea that the…
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What we still have to learn from Obama’s campaign – and policy – successes
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A year ago today, I awoke early after a night flight from Las…
Right to wrong: The George Osborne story
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Here’s a video about George Osborne getting it “wrong” on Northern Rock, Bradford…
More opprobrium for Cameron on Europe
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Adding to the opprobrium, there’s another article in the papers today strongly criticising…
The drugs don’t work
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 It’s been a bad weekend for science and a bad weekend for Alan…
Catch up with today’s political telly…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 “Sopel on Sunday” today features TV interviews with Alistair Darling, Alan Johnson, Harriet…
Economist: Tory group is shoddy and shaming…what sort of party does Cameron lead?
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 There’s been a lot of attack and defence this week about the Conservatives’…
Even entertaining the idea of EU foreign minister job would kill Miliband in the Labour party
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Paul Waugh writes of an interesting scenario in which Sarkozy kills Blair’s…
Each of the Defence Secretaries should be held to account for the MoD’s failings
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 On Septmeber 2, 2006, 14 servicemen died in Afghanistan on an RAF Nimrod.…
Biscuitgate: it never happened
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 It is a truth universally acknowledged that Gordon Brown is a tragic ditherer…
