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So long.... 3 Mar 2012 | 08:13 am
Dear Readers, Thanks for supporting this blog over the last few years. Writing it has been an absolute pleasure, though the time has come to shut this particular site down. You can still follow me o...
Battle of the speeches 9 Feb 2012 | 12:27 am
When the press notice came through this morning that Ed Miliband would be giving a speech on Thursday on “fairness in tough times” there was something about it that smelt a bit fusty. I couldn’t put ...
David Miliband suggests Coalition unemployment policy may have some merit 7 Feb 2012 | 07:04 am
Earlier on we had a briefing with David Miliband who has been touting the proposals for tackling youth unemployment from a commission which he chaired. In his opening spiel he said: “In terms of refo...
Boom and Bust - the definitive explanation 20 Jan 2012 | 07:57 am
At the Press Gallery Lunch earlier The Guardian’s Michael White and Ed Balls had a conversation about the claim that Labour had abolished Boom and Bust, and it led to the most, shall we say, meticulou...
Cameron's speech is, er, more about "setting tone"... 20 Jan 2012 | 02:08 am
There was a rather distracting Union Jack poster behind the PM as he gave his speech on capitalism just now – it almost meant I missed the new thing in his speech which was thoroughly tucked away. Th...
Footage of Commons debate on EU veto... 14 Dec 2011 | 12:47 am
If you didn't catch it yesterday... Uploaded on to Youtube by TAofMoridura
Preview of tomorrow's column... 13 Dec 2011 | 08:55 am
Here is a section of tomorrow's column in the Stoke Sentinel, buy the paper in the morning to get the full thwack... Eddie suspected this all made the PM look a little like a loony right-winger, or a...
Clegg answers questions on his absence at EU debate 13 Dec 2011 | 08:02 am
For those of you that missed here are the DPM's words after he missed the debate on the EU statement: DPM: The coalition government is here to stay. On Europe, what I’m going to do is this – build br...
Odds on collapse of Euro 10 Dec 2011 | 05:43 am
William Hill is now offering odds of 3/1 that the Euro will cease to exist as a currency by the end of 2012, and 2/9 that it will survive. The book-keeper have also slashed odds for the UK pulling ou...
How will Cam be treated back in the UK? 10 Dec 2011 | 02:52 am
A couple of days ago the main story of the EU summit was how the nations would save the Euro, but this morning it has changed to Britain’s veto and the future of the EU. That is even more so since ou...
