At home with the Browns
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Gordon Brown has given a detailed and personal interview to the Evening Standard,…
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The Northern Irish peace process is still not over, but the discussion over unity should now begin
By Ben Folley As we approach the general election, the government’s foreign policy adventures continue to cost votes,…
How to win friends and influence people on climate change
By Kieran Roberts I’m all for scepticism. Climate change will eventually cost billions of pounds taxpayers money and…
PM: A lasting peace and power in the hands of the people of Northern Ireland
PM is “very angry” at charged MPs
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The Prime Minister expressed his anger at the three MPs charged with theft…
Old college friend says Cameron a “dry-as-dust” Thatcherite
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Unlike Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron does believe there is such a thing as…
Labour’s enabling, empowering manifesto – 8 in the morning, February 5th
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * Labour’s election and manifesto co-ordinators Douglas Alexander and Ed Miliband say Labour…
I’ve never met a MP who was either corrupt or greedy, and yet the witch hunt goes on
The Paul Richards column There is a simple explanation for the endemic trousering of cash by MPs through…
Cruddas would be “in the race”
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Sunder Katwala flags the interesting interview with Jon Cruddas in this week’s New…
In an era of parental choice, poor children have the fewest choices
By Jim Sweetman /@jimbo9848 The National Equality Panel report, published in January, showed how the gap between rich…
