Tag: tony-blair
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If I were the Lib Dem Sedgefield campaign manager, I’d be using the phrase “cut and run” as often as possible. I’d also use this photo. A lot. Under the caption “the new face of Labour”. I’m sure it will go down especially well on the housing estates.
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Tony Blair is lamenting about that eeevil old media. You know, the thing that he used to become Prime Minister: the media can operate like “a feral beast” and its relationship with politicians is “damaged” and in need of repair. Can this be true? Well, it would appear that we now have a way to…
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From the redoubtable Home Office Watch: It has just been announced in today’s parliamentary business that the ID cards cost report – which the government was legally obliged (I repeat, legally obliged) to publish 31 days ago – is to be published today. You couldn’t make it up really, could you?
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Today was a family day, but I still managed to catch most of the key moments of the 1997 General Election results on BBC Parliament. I was having problem with our set top box but I just managed to tune in in time for David Mellor. It was weird watching it – on the night…
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Inspired by Godwin’s Law, I’ve decided to declare a new principle: As a political row involving any Jewish actors, no matter how tangentially, grows longer, the probability that someone will claim anti-semitism approaches one. Apparently, for example, the cash-for-honours investigation is now officially anti-semitism. This would be rather more believable were it not for the…