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Jane A

2009-06-04 07:49:28

@Em

I don't think you're reaching for the stars in wanting people to see past GB's demeanour and see the strong and capable politician. That's how politics should be - substance over style. I was just trying to make the link between strong communicators/politicians who can carry the day in tough times.

Em

2009-06-04 02:47:20

*is tipsy, sorry for what follows*

@Jane

The problem with appearances is that not all who have charisma have substance to back it up. Clinton ONLY became president because he could pass for a bubba (definition: a working-class white male from rural American South). Some charismatic characters are positively vacuous, see David Cameron.

Jane, you seem resigned to what the lower common denominator will accept. I want people to see past GB's rumpled suit. Am I reaching for the stars here?

Jane A

2009-06-03 22:09:37

@Em

The flashy suit/bright smile/charisma persona is a hard one to attack. People who have it, or have had it (Obama/Blair/Clinton et al) know that if you need to put a message over, a personable messenger is all.

It may be shallow, it may be vacuous, it may be idiotic, but voters buy people, and secondly as a result, the policies they espouse.

This is why Dave endeavours to position himself as a "nice guy" : love me, love my (soon to be determined) policies.

Anyway, happybirthday :-)

betty curtis

2009-06-03 19:39:43

I've been watching news all day and PMQ---Gordon Brown was excellent--showed up "Hoodie Cameron"

BBC 6 O'clock News reporting on Hazel Blears said nothing about her expenses rearing it's ugly head again in tomorrows Torygraph--Also nothing about the letter to her from Brown saying he understands why she is resigning but he hopes that she can return to the Cabinet in the future

I don't believe Hazel was harming the PM or the Labour party. The events on expenses was the reason she had to go.

It is understandable that people watching the edited version of the events don't get the truth.

Jane A

2009-06-03 18:57:30

The blog nails a lot of key points and other people have summed up why it felt so right for today. I still feel - sorry to say this - that GB needs to move aside, though.

So two quick other thoughts from me:

- campaign update. Still no Labour communique through our letterbox despite one day to go, local elections as well as euro, and several from Dave. This isn't right. We look like we gave up already. The ginormous UKIP poster in Oxford has been vandalised to shreds.

- tactical voting. I keep hearing people say they are going to be doing it tomorrow, so LibDem (or even Green) rather than Labour. Why? You end up with the candidate you don't want representing a party you don't belong to, or believe in. I shall be voting early tomorrow, and voting Labour, on each and every ballot paper I get.

Keith (2)

2009-06-03 16:45:40

...just to add.

After seeing PMQs earlier today, Brown did himself and his chances of winning over the doubters, no harm at all. Strong performance, compared to Cameron's lacklustre attempts to pin him down.

Em

2009-06-03 15:38:49

I read somewhere yesterday that it's to the media's advantage to foster regular changes in personnel and how you, Alastair, took advantage of that reality in the mid-nineties. Fair enough, but the difference is that New Labour was to provide new, long lasting change, whereas the Tories now have few palatable items on their agenda. Where they are not vague, they are reactionary. Unfortunately, too many media outlets have already anointed Cameron, and day after day, the British public are told that the next government will be Conservative.

In reaction to the Guardian editorial, I'll echo your already oft-quoted "and then what"? If you were Miliband or Johnson, would you jump into the fire right this minute? I'm not an expert but I've noticed that politicians who capture the public's imagination, the ones with whom the public will go the distance, tend to be leaders whose image as leaders have been built up over time; the ones that appear out of thin air as mid-crisis replacements rarely last.

Capturing the imagination of the public is what matters. In this, the public are tyrannical. It seems the British people were never interested in GB being a man of substance, an intellectual, a thinker. Blair and Obama have that plus the "it" factor, which some seem to think GB is lacking. In the end, it's the electorate that loses when it demands not only an effective government but a Camelot dream to dream alongside it.

We blame the government, we blame the media but I believe both are consistently lowering themselves to appeal to the most juvenile aspects in all of us. To cannibalise one of your mottos about governing in prose AC, the public refuses to accept that governing is done in prose and, in the end, we pay a dear price for our superficiality that requires a flashy leader with freshly-pressed suits.

Maggie Anderson

2009-06-03 15:16:29

Is it only me that's wondering why there have been no questions asked of the Daily Telegraph's relentless campaign to bring down the British government? Surely not, but it seems to have succeeded on every front! Those terrible twins, the leader of the conservative party and his shadow chancellor are sitting smirking on the opposition benches waiting for the axe to fall at the next election. Strength of purpose, unity and sheer bloody minded-ness is what's needed now more than ever. The poor, the disabled, the elderly and all those that`are vulnerable are about to be thrown to those two wily wolves and those honorary conservatives, the Liberal Democrats!

Keith

2009-06-03 15:05:18

Look, Brown is a good guy and an effective operator (and clearly intellectually superior to the vast bulk of MPs that i witness each day). That said, Labour are heading for an absolute crushing if they are not careful and this is more important than any leader. The party needs to quickly work out the fastest, most effective way of getting on the front foot and challenging the Tories where it matters (the minute they have attention focused on their policy ideas and principles they are on a pretty sticky wicket indeed). If the majority of the Cabinet and party think they can do this with Brown, so be it - they should shut up now and get to work fast. Equally if there is a majority in the PLP and Cab who think any message associated with him won't be heard by the electorate - then they regrettably have to be as ruthless with him as the Tories were with Thatcher. The Guardian raised a thorny issue perhaps to suit their own sales, but i feel necessary nevertheless.

Derek Rutland

2009-06-03 14:27:54

You've got it wrong on the BNP piece. The headline was unfortunate – and the whole notion of devoting most of a page to them questionable – but the article seems sober and well written. To say the writer has 'fallen for' anything about them seems a bit bizarre. Did you read it?

Michael

2009-06-03 14:25:22

Forget the editorial, look at Freedland urging folks to vote Green, like it's some pleasant dinner party game of cluedo or charades. What are the Greens going to do to tackle inner city crime? What is the Green policy on Welfare? Doesn't matter too much to the Lumley's and Freedland's - let's hug a tree instead, it's a cool cause.

Matt

2009-06-03 13:47:15

Ironic that as we get to the end of the New Labour 'project' (which I'm afraid tomorrow's election results will surely, and sadly, underline) the epitaph will read as large as the epithet used at the beginning, with one critical, and desperately misunderstood adjustment...

Things Can Only Get Worse

Bar Bar of Oz

2009-06-03 13:28:29

But t'is the Left media who led the charge to get rid of TB n'est ce pas? Hasn't the Graud been sucking up to David Cameron for some time now?

Being in Oz, it's been quite hard following the nitty gritty of the New Labour (Tony Blair) vision's collapse under Gordon and the Brownites, but this Tom Watson? Would be good to know how many of the Brownite members who signed the letter have been involved in the expenses scandal to add to their sins of unfathomable political inepitude?

Craig, Oxfordshire

2009-06-03 12:48:31

The Guardian seems totally lost at present. By following the Cameron agenda so eargerly, it seems to have created for itself a vacuum in responsibility.

The biggest disappointment for me of New Labour's reign has been the inability to communicate by getting the left-leaning media on side after Blair's departure, the vast improvements to Society we have lived though since 1997. Brown has singularly failed to do this.Andy Beckett's piece in the Guardian today brings it all home to me. GB had the chance and the foundations to build upon the Blair years.

Saying all that - I still question the Guardian's direction - hanging onto Dave's every word.

Brian Hughes

2009-06-03 12:32:09

One of the joys of moving to the sticks (and of travelling steerage rather than in the wide seats) is that it's easier to escape what passes these days for news. But I do miss London!

Bryan Gould and Jeremy Beecham are spot on.

The most distressing result of the expenses scandal seems to me to be that it gives an excuse for the borderline apathetic to tip over into non voters. I guess that suits the Telegraph just fine.

It’s all part of a poisonous cocktail of envy, cynicism and simplistic solutions peddled by those who know they can’t beat Labour on policy. Similar to what was done to Clinton in the US - but the real disaster is that so many on our side have, just as he did with his dalliances, handed out free ammunition…

Anne

2009-06-03 11:14:14

One of the reasons I am so cross about the expenses scandal is precisely the reason Jeremy Beecham gives-those who need a Labour Government most will be deprived of one because people either won't vote at all, or will vote for minority parties or will vote Tory-Labour won't win again for at least a decade unless there is a miracle.
These greedy, hubristic MPs (both Labour and Tory) have fed the apathy and disillusion that were embryonic allowing people to find yet more 'reasons' not to engage in the political process.And that means the Tories win and it's another victory for the Daily Mail. How irresponsible!!

Ian, London

2009-06-03 11:12:18

Spot on Alastair. My first thought on reading this last night was that Polly has been passing the superstrength valium around the leader writers. Dinner party attention seeking aside however, the Gould and Beecham points are what every Labour activist or advocate need to shout about. We might have made mistakes along the way - especially in terms of getting our priorities wrong - but if people think that carpet-bagger Cameron and his merry band of Trustfarians have the answers, they're not only asking the wrong questions, they've lost all sense of political perspective.

Richard

2009-06-03 10:59:24

Would that be Jeremy Beecham - former chair of the LGA? Hokely dokely. I'm not sure if you're criticizing the Guardian for trying to sell newspapers or because they aren't supporting Brown.

I went to college in Hull - marvellous town - have a gud un.

Alison Stead

2009-06-03 10:53:04

Do all the papers given out free count in their circulation figures? I always take a Daily Mail if offered it, and then bin it, then take another one.

Jason Bough

2009-06-03 10:51:57

I too felt glad to see Denham and Hattersley at least show a bit of fight. There is far too much meeting the media half way. Yes expenses is terrible, but not for all of them,, and not to the exclusion of all else that is important. Planes dropping out of the sky - but oh no, someone claimed wrongly for a bathplug. Hold the front page.
As for Cameron, he keeps strange company indeed

morph366

2009-06-03 10:51:37

The reasoning in the Guardian editorial was spot on.
It isn't a right wing/left wing - that's so yesteryear - it's about many human beings observing another human being who is not suited to the task.
Shame you cannot be candid and express a view on the matter yourself

markable

2009-06-03 10:50:10

The perspective you share here is compelling, Alistair, and I, also, find the attitude of Labour's supposed allies questionable at such a challenging time. The problem is, dear GB is sowing his own demise by being deafeningly silent in the greatest crisis parliamentary democracy has seen in a generation. I cannot see a certain TB or indeed an MT allowing this saga to run in the absence of clear and dynamic leadership.The only good news for Labour is DC is almost as lacking in such dynamism, for the reasons you identify, among others.
Keep up the good blogging. MB

Patsy Hills

2009-06-03 10:49:17

You are right the media is all about impact, but that does not negate the fact that Gordon Brown has been a disappointment. I agree as well that it is rich for all these people who slagged off Blair so much, and saw Brown as the saviour, now to be going for him too. But something has to give.The situation is terrible for Labour and even though I agree with Mr Beecham, we cannot limp on like this.

Alan Quinn

2009-06-03 10:47:53

AC.. you missed Billy 16 pints squirming over Lord Ashcroft's residency status, a bit of a Michael Howard moment for me.
Agree with the comments on Hattersley and Denham though and Peter Kilfoyle did well too.

Guardian of social justice or attention-seeker?

2009-06-03 10:19:33

Up early and off to Hull for a mental health conference. Having caught the end of Newsnight, I was thinking it would be good for my own mental health if I avoided the papers, but it is impossible to escape the bombardment of the media age when travelling.

Airports are the worst. 24 hour news blaring away to audiences which average around zero, and you cannot board a plane these days without someone trying to forcefeed you with a copy of the Daily Mail. I would rather have measles (which the Mail helped give via their grotesque MMR campaign of course).

Train stations are not much better mind you. Armies of people thrusting freesheets at you. Oh the litter. Then onto the train and along with the free coffee in first class come more paper boys and girls.

Partly to halt the tide I took a copy of The Guardian. I was aware from last night's breathless Newsnight report by David Grossman (well done to John Denham and Roy Hattersley for showing a bit of fight by the way, and to Roy in particular for reminding Paxo that TV journalism was once a serious calling, not a game in gossip-montage) that The Guardian was urging the Labour Party to dump GB.

The paper will be pleased to know I also heard about this via Five Live in the cab to the station, and Breakfast News when I arrived there.

Modern journalism is about impact. The Daily Telegraph has been somewhat monopolising impact. The Guardian has had few places to go. A nibble with the Lib Dems here, a cuddle with the Greens there, but hardly high impact. Calling on GB to go ... ATT-EN-SHUN!!

I'm not saying this is the only reason, and I don't doubt there are well-meaning people, among them the ones who used to opine that if only Blair went and Brown took over the world would become a perfect place, who really think Labour would benefit from a sudden change.

But writing an editorial, a column or a blog is easy compared with managing your way through a crisis for Parliament and politics. What they do not offer is an answer to the question 'and then what?'

There is a lot of talk about Alan Johnson, and as I head to his constituency, I am well aware of his qualities, not least what he has done for the NHS (rarely in the news these days because Labour has vastly improved it as promised). But I see no evidence he is about to make a move or a challenge. Nor does the Guardian have to worry about the likelihood of GB's successor having to hold an election at the worst possible time - a legitimate political consideration.

A few other things I spotted in the paper. A page of 'money-can't-buy' puffery for the BNP. The ease with which some in the liberal press has fallen for their 'moderation' strategy is a disgrace.

On page one, to be fair to the Guardian, more evidence of David Cameron's dreadful European policy -these are the European elections remember - and his cuddling up to gay-hating, German-hating Czechs and Poles rather than Sarkozy and Merkel.

If a Labour leader in Opposition was in bed with people a tenth as bad as this, we would never hear the end of it.
But the two things in the paper that really caught my eye were less prominent.

A trail for an online piece by former Labour MP Bryan Gould ... ' If Labour goes down without a trace, society's least well off will be without a defence.'

And even more so a letter by Newcastle councillor Jeremy Beecham, who lists the improvements in schools, housing, children's services, policing and other areas of life in his inner-city ward and concludes 'as a probably beneficiary of any Conservative government, I tremble for the future of my constituents.'

Would that our left-leaning media, as they whip themselves day by day into ever greater frenzies, cared as much about the people Jeremy represents.

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Publish date: 2010-01-21 10:24:46

Denis MacShane MP on the rewriting of history re Iraq war

Publish date: 2010-01-20 10:44:07

Darling v Gove, Osborne and help the rich squad is No Contest

Publish date: 2010-01-19 10:12:27

Dacre's Downfall

Publish date: 2010-01-18 03:30:21

Rebutting the good and the bad, and support from football fans

Publish date: 2010-01-17 12:45:38

Mandela is a great man, Invictus a great film

Publish date: 2010-01-16 08:54:48

Is Paul Dacre hiding a guilty secret that explains his deranged paper?

Publish date: 2010-01-15 09:56:24

What's the real fight to be had?

Publish date: 2010-01-14 10:20:20

On Owen Coyle and Brian Laws

Publish date: 2010-01-13 18:27:58

Thanks to friend and foe alike for helping yesterday go by

Publish date: 2010-01-13 08:49:25

So far so good in campaign to remove discriminatory law

Publish date: 2010-01-11 09:48:15

Thanks to Will Hutton for talking sense on 'class war'

Publish date: 2010-01-10 12:56:48

In defence of airbrushed posters

Publish date: 2010-01-09 16:45:29

Fire is always best turned on the Tories

Publish date: 2010-01-07 15:41:19

On Hoon-Hewitt and John Prescott

Publish date: 2010-01-07 00:55:10

Sad and baffled to see Coyle go

Publish date: 2010-01-05 16:26:05

Cameron's wobble the product of his team saying what their audiences want to hear

Publish date: 2010-01-05 10:50:58

New Tory slogan - if you've got the cash, splash it on crap ads

Publish date: 2010-01-02 12:11:18

And the musicians of the decade were ... The Beatles and The King

Publish date: 2009-12-31 18:52:25

Prepare for avalanche of Ashcroft posters for Tories

Publish date: 2009-12-30 15:06:06

Here's Good Luck to you, Mrs Robinson

Publish date: 2009-12-29 12:22:42

One man's White Christmas joy is another's football disaster

Publish date: 2009-12-24 13:36:05

My favourite fact of the day - a French decimal time system

Publish date: 2009-12-23 16:48:00

A few crisis management tips for Eurostar

Publish date: 2009-12-22 11:49:35

Do we need same approach to booze as smoking?

Publish date: 2009-12-19 09:13:28

Prepare for tears, tantrums and an imperfect but miraculous Copenhagen conclusion

Publish date: 2009-12-18 10:23:03

London 2012 and Copenhagen today ... different approaches to tight deadlines

Publish date: 2009-12-16 11:13:21

Tiger cut off at the knees. I bet he'll be back

Publish date: 2009-12-14 11:03:17

Cameron Shameron on the need for new laws to clarify Ashcroft tax status

Publish date: 2009-12-13 17:06:56

When poor mental health creates great art ...

Publish date: 2009-12-12 15:21:13

Giggs gets my Sports Personality vote, but I'll miss the big moment

Publish date: 2009-12-11 13:56:15

Tough day for Labour, but tough questions for Tories too

Publish date: 2009-12-10 10:03:13

Alistair Darling's quiet authority key part of recovery.

Publish date: 2009-12-09 11:03:25

Clegg risks squeeze as election nears

Publish date: 2009-12-08 15:30:58

Copenhagen really matters. Guardian front page sets scene well

Publish date: 2009-12-07 10:26:33

Four years on, what do we think of Cameron's leadership?

Publish date: 2009-12-06 13:55:17

Boris and Waddles, an everyday tale of Tory croneyism

Publish date: 2009-12-05 09:53:35

The Speaker's wife is a credit to him, and spot on about Cameron's Toryism

Publish date: 2009-12-04 10:52:37

PMQs win for GB was a direct result of Cameron's strategic failure

Publish date: 2009-12-03 08:21:10

Cameron's conkers add to his problem with serious opinion

Publish date: 2009-12-02 10:59:45

Sarko at risk of riling Obama and GB. Cameron on conkers

Publish date: 2009-12-01 10:29:48

The life and death of the man who made the link between exercise and health

Publish date: 2009-11-28 11:37:29

Even top Tories think Dave and Co can't do piss up in a brewery

Publish date: 2009-11-27 20:51:29

Well done BBC Inside Sport. Shame on media for news blackout on Coulson bullying case

Publish date: 2009-11-26 13:59:57

Well done BBC in Mental Health Media awards. Looking forward to Inside Sport on depression tonight

Publish date: 2009-11-25 10:26:22

BBC main bulletin blackout on leaders' speeches bizarre

Publish date: 2009-11-24 10:17:48

Business right to be worried about Tory axe on RDAs

Publish date: 2009-11-23 10:17:12

Why should Brown and Cameron apologise for being seen to pay tribute to the war dead?

Publish date: 2009-11-22 11:12:38

Beware climate change denial dressed up as 'commonsense'

Publish date: 2009-11-21 12:54:27

Something for the weekend - a long lazy blog lifted from interviews

Publish date: 2009-11-20 12:35:23

If France and FIFA won't act on Thierry Henry, let's have a boycott of Gillette razors

Publish date: 2009-11-19 10:09:00

Never in the history of human taxation has so much been promised from so many to so few

Publish date: 2009-11-18 18:32:39

Tories far from 'effete and unfamiliar' when it comes to twisted tax priorities

Publish date: 2009-11-18 09:52:12

Two very different stories of depression

Publish date: 2009-11-17 17:17:11

Congrats to Ellie on PPB campaign, and Willy Hague on getting van Rompuy

Publish date: 2009-11-17 11:40:14

Private schools worse than State schools - unless it's drugs you're after. Discuss

Publish date: 2009-11-16 12:10:25

Fiona Millar 5 Toby Young 0

Publish date: 2009-11-15 13:18:38

Where we fight we win

Publish date: 2009-11-13 11:22:00

Good luck to Number 10 on 'lobby' review. And a big NO to the other PR

Publish date: 2009-11-12 14:39:11

Robert Enke RIP. May his death increase understanding of depression

Publish date: 2009-11-11 17:59:53

On the exploitation of grief to get Gordon

Publish date: 2009-11-11 08:59:01

Why Tories are not home and dry, and wrong to call GB callous

Publish date: 2009-11-10 13:00:20

Labour needs more of the winning mentality

Publish date: 2009-11-09 10:30:44

The scandal of friendship and the shame of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Publish date: 2009-11-07 10:53:53

US clarity of strategy required for full explanation on Afghanistan

Publish date: 2009-11-06 10:31:48

Just because he is French doesn't mean he's wrong

Publish date: 2009-11-05 10:58:46

Congratulations to David Cameron and Trevor Kavanagh

Publish date: 2009-11-04 10:34:36

Is there a Sun blackout on Cameron's dumping of 'cast iron guarantee' on Europe?

Publish date: 2009-11-03 20:37:04

Johnson seems to get it on immigration. Right on advisors advising too

Publish date: 2009-11-03 11:58:59

Public opinion on climate change - the public might be the problem

Publish date: 2009-11-02 11:37:23

In praise of Stephen Fry, who should tweet or not as he sees fit

Publish date: 2009-11-01 09:29:34

John Sergeant spot on re TB. TB's Olympics legacy. Liam Gallagher's generosity

Publish date: 2009-10-30 11:50:44

Conservative contortions on Europe and Blair

Publish date: 2009-10-29 11:44:12

Two-jobs Osborne suffering credibility deficit

Publish date: 2009-10-28 09:14:22

Canaries win AC spin award with dark nights productivity survey

Publish date: 2009-10-27 09:41:48

Blair - dead big in Japan!

Publish date: 2009-10-26 17:21:17

No complacency, variants on a theme

Publish date: 2009-10-24 09:48:46

Griffin may have been dreadful, but there can be no complacency

Publish date: 2009-10-23 11:57:29

Margaret Hodge MP on how to fight the BNP

Publish date: 2009-10-22 16:48:39

Thanks to Charlie Falconer and Dominic Grieve - yes, I know he is a Tory

Publish date: 2009-10-21 17:24:18

On Biscuitgate, barmy Tory policy, and BNP v Generals

Publish date: 2009-10-21 10:36:15

More on Obergruppenfuhrer Dacre, Biscuitgate and Bullingdon Conservatism

Publish date: 2009-10-20 12:16:37

Biscuitgate and Susan Boyle, no win territory for GB

Publish date: 2009-10-19 12:31:00

Hating the Mail - a mindset worth having

Publish date: 2009-10-17 11:28:12

A line by line guide to the Mail statement on Gately article outrage

Publish date: 2009-10-16 19:12:36

Hit the Mail where it hurts

Publish date: 2009-10-16 16:36:02

Talking Cameron and Obama with US Democrats. Progressive Convervatism? No, he can't

Publish date: 2009-10-16 10:02:40

Inspired by kids' green passion

Publish date: 2009-10-14 18:24:13

Good news on leukaemia, good news on student activism

Publish date: 2009-10-13 08:24:21

Musings from Bertie Ahern, and how I won the Nobel prize for literature

Publish date: 2009-10-12 09:26:18

Continuing double standards in the media

Publish date: 2009-10-11 11:36:21

The best policies in Cameron's speech were those of Labour Big Government

Publish date: 2009-10-08 17:07:40

Tongues slipping all over the place

Publish date: 2009-10-08 09:00:07

Cameron confuses strategy and tactics and puts Union at risk

Publish date: 2009-10-07 10:29:26

Osborne inspires apathy at BBC Leeds

Publish date: 2009-10-06 16:01:59

Let's see more of the Tory candidates please

Publish date: 2009-10-06 09:23:11

Labour needs to fight on record to stop Tory vandalism

Publish date: 2009-10-05 14:28:40

VacuDave goes all peevish at difficult questions. Bring on the debates

Publish date: 2009-10-04 23:33:52

Lots of joking around in Jersey, though nothing as hysterical as Dave's Europe position

Publish date: 2009-10-03 10:31:22

On The Sun, Obama in Copenhagen and Alistair McGowan on the loo

Publish date: 2009-10-01 10:59:49

Sun switches ain't wot they used to be

Publish date: 2009-09-30 10:17:14

Darling and Mandelson show what I mean by authenticity

Publish date: 2009-09-28 16:28:18

Serious Politics 1 Low Journalism 0

Publish date: 2009-09-27 11:55:54

Media's love for Cameron should be turned into a weakness

Publish date: 2009-09-26 10:30:03

Time for ministers to stand up and fight

Publish date: 2009-09-25 09:40:26

Today's media double standards watch

Publish date: 2009-09-24 09:29:45

Breaking News - GB wins award, Lib Dems face all ways

Publish date: 2009-09-23 09:43:49

Why authenticity is the key to comms, and why Merkel will win

Publish date: 2009-09-22 08:29:13

Why I love NHS walk-in centres

Publish date: 2009-09-21 12:13:03

Here goes with the smoked Salmond

Publish date: 2009-09-20 10:40:21

Breaking News - Cameron's vacuousness an impersonator's nightmare

Publish date: 2009-09-19 11:06:09

Cameron has an army of spin doctors - aka journalists

Publish date: 2009-09-18 10:07:06

On Scottish independence, Cameron's short-termism, and Jimmy Carter being right

Publish date: 2009-09-17 09:56:56

Is Cameron Alex Salmond's Trojan Horse?

Publish date: 2009-09-15 10:13:42

On the TUC, Roy of the Rovers and Anna Wintour

Publish date: 2009-09-14 11:04:46

Memo to Apple boss Steve Jobs

Publish date: 2009-09-13 17:36:31

A day in the life of a (crap) City trader

Publish date: 2009-09-11 17:52:25

Defend record with pride, attack Tories with gusto

Publish date: 2009-09-10 11:06:36

Cameron's Conservatism beyond parody

Publish date: 2009-09-09 10:38:00

On transforned cities, and tales of Princess Di and Laura Bush

Publish date: 2009-09-08 09:45:54

Labour should put minister up against Griffin on Question Time

Publish date: 2009-09-06 12:39:56

School speech the latest source of right-wing frothing at Obama

Publish date: 2009-09-05 08:23:02

More horse's mouth, less Beeb blah please

Publish date: 2009-09-04 22:49:20

Real respect for sport can be Olympic legacy

Publish date: 2009-09-04 09:27:34

First ladies watch out for Japanese bombshell

Publish date: 2009-09-03 10:47:19

TV debate - good idea in theory, but ...

Publish date: 2009-09-02 15:37:43

'No worries' - the new response to thanks

Publish date: 2009-09-01 12:25:19

Tremors of Japanese political earthquake will be felt far and wide

Publish date: 2009-08-30 15:50:54

Pressure on Ed Miliband can help get a climate change deal

Publish date: 2009-08-28 13:39:08

Why Tories and media cannot stomach GCSE success story

Publish date: 2009-08-27 16:03:34

Exposing the absurdity of Chris Grayling

Publish date: 2009-08-26 13:20:19

Joy and beauty and a night of magic

Publish date: 2009-08-20 10:55:11

Twitter NHS backlash good for Obama

Publish date: 2009-08-14 15:44:49

A lifetime's ambition fulfilled

Publish date: 2009-08-08 16:59:02

Breaking the blog-a-day spell as warm up to holiday

Publish date: 2009-07-20 17:44:49

No hiding place from Twitter, me on the bike, JP in DC

Publish date: 2009-07-17 18:17:09

At last - something Obama cannot do well

Publish date: 2009-07-16 10:05:47

Will MPs take the lead in the debate on euthanasia?

Publish date: 2009-07-15 12:30:01

Berlin brothel leads the way to a greener world

Publish date: 2009-07-14 10:57:25

A time for GB to explain the whole picture

Publish date: 2009-07-13 12:37:54

All hail Monty, Jimmy and Collie!

Publish date: 2009-07-12 20:06:36

First triathlon of the summer for me, education award for Fiona

Publish date: 2009-07-12 09:43:06

Of Burnley's friendly and Obama's wandering eye

Publish date: 2009-07-11 12:38:52

Two great early morning moments

Publish date: 2009-07-10 10:27:07

Cameron had better be sure he's right

Publish date: 2009-07-09 11:06:22

Guardian scoop has big questions for press, cops and Cameron

Publish date: 2009-07-08 20:40:54

Divisive legend: Lance Armstrong

Publish date: 2009-07-07 10:38:23

First hug a hoodie, now grab a gay

Publish date: 2009-07-06 12:57:09

Mail on Scumday's wonderful account of Lansley's kipperdom

Publish date: 2009-07-05 13:14:51

Ecclestone undermines his own success with alarming views on Hitler

Publish date: 2009-07-04 14:04:04

When the conmen move more quickly than the council

Publish date: 2009-07-03 10:19:52

Andrew Lansley done up like a kipper

Publish date: 2009-07-02 10:10:52

A day spent interviewing footballers, then being interviewed by a transvestite comedian

Publish date: 2009-07-01 14:47:40

When the power of black eyes fades

Publish date: 2009-06-30 09:24:59

Farewell to Henry Hodge

Publish date: 2009-06-29 20:41:12

Honouring the power of sport to do good

Publish date: 2009-06-29 14:49:42

Andy Murray is a winner. Is that why some Brits don't like him?

Publish date: 2009-06-28 09:19:20

New Parliament will look very different. The younger the better

Publish date: 2009-06-27 17:34:26

Two nice surprises, sad end to day

Publish date: 2009-06-26 09:16:33

Apology from the Spectator on Iraq boosts Henry Hodge fund

Publish date: 2009-06-25 19:57:26

Thanks to Mr Harper on mental health, rebuttal of Mr Hague on Iraq

Publish date: 2009-06-24 23:47:54

Glad to find Eric Cantona in a quiet cinema ...

Publish date: 2009-06-24 00:46:23

By Dave's friends shall we know him?

Publish date: 2009-06-23 11:30:20

The Speaker has to balance tradition and change - but defend Parliament

Publish date: 2009-06-22 11:58:44

Less a blog than an apology for not having done one

Publish date: 2009-06-21 20:07:43

The day Lions skipper Paul O'Connell took my trousers down

Publish date: 2009-06-20 11:48:28

On the Iraq inquiry, Independent article wrong

Publish date: 2009-06-19 20:28:24

Thank you to three readers, now please get involved

Publish date: 2009-06-19 09:13:35

A tribute to a lovely man

Publish date: 2009-06-18 17:19:40

Bad times in Belfast, great day for Burnley, odd statement from Ed Balls

Publish date: 2009-06-18 10:04:47

A plea for five-figure cyber-donations

Publish date: 2009-06-17 07:40:42

On two inquiries

Publish date: 2009-06-16 08:57:39

From India to Iran to Labour wit

Publish date: 2009-06-15 10:13:17

Memories of Princess Diana

Publish date: 2009-06-14 09:54:55

A House Divided?

Publish date: 2009-06-13 02:53:47

A humbling NHS experience, a media row and a good GB speech

Publish date: 2009-06-12 10:48:46

Psychiatrists heading for relegation in 'disease prestige' league table

Publish date: 2009-06-11 10:25:35

The shrinks await

Publish date: 2009-06-10 09:44:16

As Obama fights for healthcare, let's celebrate the record here

Publish date: 2009-06-09 12:52:55

Anger at BNP seats must be turned into activism

Publish date: 2009-06-08 14:11:10

Can today be as frenzied as Friday?

Publish date: 2009-06-07 10:31:04

Take heart from a win in Lambeth

Publish date: 2009-06-06 18:46:40

JP is right there was no proper campaign but Tories still weak

Publish date: 2009-06-05 13:47:20

Do we care more about the NHS or moats?

Publish date: 2009-06-04 00:21:23

Who says Britain can't deliver the best?

Publish date: 2009-06-02 08:08:38

Mainstream has a duty to vote against BNP

Publish date: 2009-06-01 11:03:29

Let Diversity inspire a vote against the hate-filled BNP

Publish date: 2009-05-31 12:24:20

White House whack at UK media well-timed but sure to be ignored

Publish date: 2009-05-30 13:41:00

Elvis has a plan to make MPs King again

Publish date: 2009-05-29 12:09:44

At least there's a campaign on in Italy

Publish date: 2009-05-28 09:04:32

A blow to gay rights and a boost for Cameron's short-termism

Publish date: 2009-05-27 11:27:41

It's my blog and I'll be a big kid if I want to

Publish date: 2009-05-26 23:25:58

Highs feel better after so many lows

Publish date: 2009-05-26 10:13:12

Only one present counts

Publish date: 2009-05-25 11:05:46

Contrast Cheney and Bush

Publish date: 2009-05-24 12:11:45

Sex (or at least the female form) obsessed Britain

Publish date: 2009-05-23 20:49:57

Sport at both ends of the financial spectrum

Publish date: 2009-05-23 09:57:23

Stronger together - whether Scotland or expenses

Publish date: 2009-05-22 10:22:36

Back to Number 10, familiar faces, familiar arguments

Publish date: 2009-05-21 10:14:34

Speaking up for Parliament

Publish date: 2009-05-20 11:44:17

Peace in the Middle East - yes he can

Publish date: 2009-05-19 09:37:35

Breaking news - one frenzy at a time

Publish date: 2009-05-18 10:34:30

Getting a good look at Vince Cable

Publish date: 2009-05-17 09:36:55

How do you solve a problem like Silvio?

Publish date: 2009-05-16 09:32:21

It was the internet wot won it

Publish date: 2009-05-15 10:04:57

There now follows ... a good whack at Cameron

Publish date: 2009-05-14 17:21:28

They got their kit off - so you get your cash out

Publish date: 2009-05-14 07:41:11

Expenses row must not obscure Tory intentions on minimum wage

Publish date: 2009-05-13 16:12:08

We love you Burnley, we do ... what a night

Publish date: 2009-05-13 02:37:17

A tweet cannot express the wonders of TGV

Publish date: 2009-05-12 08:48:31

It's Mind week - Get it off your Chest with me and Stephen Fry

Publish date: 2009-05-11 06:29:15

Hate the Mail, love Obama

Publish date: 2009-05-10 10:04:00

Burnley 1 Reading 0 - a biased report

Publish date: 2009-05-09 21:26:32

MPs expenses - time for party leaders to meet again

Publish date: 2009-05-09 09:50:19

Should happiness replace prosperity as national goal?

Publish date: 2009-05-08 08:43:23

Musings from a sleepless night

Publish date: 2009-05-07 07:33:49

Darren Fletcher - an injustice that has to be righted

Publish date: 2009-05-06 09:52:29

Maggie's legacy not as great as she thinks

Publish date: 2009-05-05 08:33:02

Here's hoping Cardiff is metaphor for Cameron

Publish date: 2009-05-04 09:38:30

More Mr Benn and Co please

Publish date: 2009-05-03 10:03:00

Going Fourth with JP

Publish date: 2009-05-02 18:25:41

Journalism - print first, think later

Publish date: 2009-05-02 09:10:01

In praise of two poets

Publish date: 2009-05-01 10:26:36

JP hits the road again

Publish date: 2009-04-29 18:52:11

My night with Eddie Izzard

Publish date: 2009-04-29 10:53:25

Explaining the 50p top tax rate

Publish date: 2009-04-28 09:22:53

George Best and Martin McGuinness

Publish date: 2009-04-27 09:02:35

Cameron confused over indepdendence and impartiality

Publish date: 2009-04-26 12:20:56

Guide ro Marathon running part 2

Publish date: 2009-04-25 11:01:34

Good signals on coal and the Olympics

Publish date: 2009-04-24 10:45:28

Tips for the London Marathon

Publish date: 2009-04-23 17:29:27

Missed the Budget, saw why it mattered

Publish date: 2009-04-22 23:09:31

Football good, politics bad. Allegedly

Publish date: 2009-04-22 00:00:24

The Great Wall gets greater

Publish date: 2009-04-21 09:55:22

Two sides to police story

Publish date: 2009-04-20 11:39:54

Budgets, Balls, billionaires and Susan Boyle

Publish date: 2009-04-19 12:31:45

Do muscles have memories?

Publish date: 2009-04-18 09:44:44

Bring back standing at football

Publish date: 2009-04-17 14:50:22

When Facebook friends fall out

Publish date: 2009-04-16 12:29:16

Guardian sightings and the email and bath plug agenda

Publish date: 2009-04-15 11:32:16

The spin is all in the prism

Publish date: 2009-04-14 09:22:41

A setback, not a crisis

Publish date: 2009-04-13 12:55:19

The real lessons from Damian McBride

Publish date: 2009-04-12 10:49:47

Will English always be the dominant language?

Publish date: 2009-04-11 10:02:02

On the pipes and what makes a Scot

Publish date: 2009-04-10 11:06:20

John Prescott lazy? NO WAY

Publish date: 2009-04-09 09:11:31

David Frost is seventy

Publish date: 2009-04-08 08:48:38

The Speaker, BBC2, tonight and tomorrow 8pm

Publish date: 2009-04-07 14:25:31

Obama, colds and being woken by Korean missiles

Publish date: 2009-04-06 11:59:24

When a call matters more than protocol

Publish date: 2009-04-05 11:33:42

Green Cities Champions League

Publish date: 2009-04-04 10:19:53

Could Cameron have delivered the G20 deal?

Publish date: 2009-04-03 10:11:59

Of Benn and Bono

Publish date: 2009-04-02 08:21:16

Memo to Sarko - allez vite a Londres

Publish date: 2009-04-01 08:46:17

Happy April Fool's Day

Publish date: 2009-04-01 01:44:05

Eurostar, Le Monde and a thought for the G20 sherpas

Publish date: 2009-03-31 09:17:22

Why Kevin Rudd made an impact

Publish date: 2009-03-30 10:24:41

Pre-G20 hype matters less than post-G20 process

Publish date: 2009-03-29 13:17:28

The Damned United

Publish date: 2009-03-28 10:37:04

A hobby horse, a plug and a bit of sport

Publish date: 2009-03-27 10:22:23

Cloughie - he had a lot to be big-headed about

Publish date: 2009-03-26 09:38:36

A sad sight of the old fearing the young

Publish date: 2009-03-25 17:03:07

Post-modern, post-structural, or bullshit?

Publish date: 2009-03-25 08:18:02

Learning the right lessons from Obama

Publish date: 2009-03-24 08:53:15

Lazy Dave needs to keep an eye on lazy Ken

Publish date: 2009-03-23 11:16:14

Farewell favourite restaurant, hello hometown

Publish date: 2009-03-22 08:18:09

Dave, Danny and have the Tories really changed?

Publish date: 2009-03-21 08:55:13

Life beyond Dover ...

Publish date: 2009-03-20 10:11:21

My friends in The New Statesman - Fergie, Fiona, Tony, Sarah, Kevin, 'Dacre,' and a great GB idea for the G20

Publish date: 2009-03-18 10:38:22

Iraq, Iran, GB, Obama and diplomatic chess

Publish date: 2009-03-17 10:07:13

The Age of Stupid

Publish date: 2009-03-16 08:27:13

Is all change good?

Publish date: 2009-03-15 10:00:06

The pressure of being a post-modern sex god

Publish date: 2009-03-14 10:00:55

Cameron still hasn't sealed the deal with business

Publish date: 2009-03-13 09:21:49

Stand up for social workers

Publish date: 2009-03-12 08:31:17

Surely Malcolm Tucker could have told Armando Ianucci ... You can't spin a spinner

Publish date: 2009-03-11 10:58:25

Start of a new approach from Labour?

Publish date: 2009-03-10 09:54:12

A peace process still strong

Publish date: 2009-03-09 08:21:05

Day of destiny for the real footballer of the year

Publish date: 2009-03-08 09:21:06

Private advice to Peggy Mitchell - the leaked note in full

Publish date: 2009-03-07 08:17:21

Boris, the Tories and the tummy-tickling poodle press

Publish date: 2009-03-06 09:49:37

A day in the life of the self-obsessed TV reporter

Publish date: 2009-03-05 07:55:47

GB - good speech, well delivered

Publish date: 2009-03-04 19:31:05

Notes on the environment, a role in EastEnders

Publish date: 2009-03-04 10:58:56

She may be my 'wife' but it is time to rebut!

Publish date: 2009-03-03 10:52:59

Some speeches matter more than others

Publish date: 2009-03-02 12:04:45

Mental health and the Carling Cup Final

Publish date: 2009-03-01 09:08:17

Inside the chocolate factory

Publish date: 2009-02-28 10:23:59

GB on the G20, JP on Jeremy Kyle

Publish date: 2009-02-27 09:14:36

Charity and the credit crunch, please give generously!

Publish date: 2009-02-26 08:55:12

Why oh why are the Tories not home and dry?

Publish date: 2009-02-24 09:44:59

Me, Dermot and ten top songs

Publish date: 2009-02-23 10:02:19

Names round-up

Publish date: 2009-02-22 08:43:39

What's in a name?

Publish date: 2009-02-21 09:58:14

Editing the New Statesman

Publish date: 2009-02-20 11:42:36

Salute Peter M’s proper use of the F word

Publish date: 2009-02-19 09:58:58

Labour's communications challenge for the NHS

Publish date: 2009-02-18 10:34:39

In praise of Keighley

Publish date: 2009-02-17 14:33:57

A night at the Emirates

Publish date: 2009-02-17 00:06:51

When marriage is tested

Publish date: 2009-02-16 13:36:35

Spare me the myths and the whining

Publish date: 2009-02-15 13:29:50

Dave Cameron - is that all there is?

Publish date: 2009-02-14 11:11:55

Boris Johnson: F is for ...

Publish date: 2009-02-13 07:55:10

The Cameron vacuum

Publish date: 2009-02-12 14:48:33

Lincoln, Obama, Blair and the 24 hour media culture

Publish date: 2009-02-11 10:28:47

Eighteen interviews later ...

Publish date: 2009-02-10 19:24:45

Time to talk about Time to Change on Newsnight

Publish date: 2009-02-09 22:47:49

So that’s what they mean by online community?

Publish date: 2009-02-08 12:12:51

First blog

Publish date: 2009-02-05 15:23:57

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