And what better reason for coming out of the blogging cave than to froth and rant at an old foe: Mr George Galloway. I was most surprised to read this piece by him in the Daily Record. Not for the content…
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It’s goodbye from him….
Oh, the fun we had in the early hours of May 2nd 1997. 22 years old, just a year out of university, still aglow with the enthusiasm/naivete of youth, staying up all night at a friend’s house watching the hated…
Some might say that’s rich coming from you
Heavyweight cultural and political commentator Noel Gallagher has lashed out at the Prime Minister in an interview with Newsnight. Pulling no punches, the pugnacious Oasis leader was critical of Tony Blair’s ‘presidential’ leadership and the Iraq war, both of which,…
Honour hiding to nothing
The cash-for-honours affair must be a crisis if Tony Blair is prepared to show up for Radio 4’s Today programme. Appearances by the PM on that show are as rare as hen’s teeth – he’s usually much happier to appear…
He doesn’t exactly inspire conference
I suppose I should make some sort of comment about last week’s Labour conference in Manchester. There was really only one story for me: the Machiavellian undermining (intentional or not) of Gordon Brown’s keynote speech. Poor old Gordon Brown. So…
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Beware the tide of marchers
In addition to my esteemed visit, Manchester also played host on Saturday to an anti-war march. 60,000 protesters (at least, according to the organisers – the police put the figure more at 20,000) walked through the city to oppose, oooh,…
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer
Next door, in fact. Gordon Brown, being interviewed on Sky News yesterday, declared that Tony Blair is his friend, and always will be, despite the recent skirmishes in the Labour Party. He also denied having any involvement in the recent…
Thus spake Blairathustra
Well, Blair has retorted, in a pre-recorded statement of blandness during a visit to a school in north London. It started with an apology on behalf of the party, which was an interesting way to begin. Trying to distance himself…
Gordon Brown, texture like sun
Just watched Gordon Brown live on BBC News 24. Interesting that he got his word in before Blair’s scheduled announcement. The gist of his statement was basically: “I have worked with the prime minister for over twenty years now, in…
Blairites and Brownites hit the mattresses
So today’s the day. Sometime between 2pm and 3pm Tony Blair will announce to the world the day he intends to stand down as prime minister. Or so we all thought. Breaking news suggests that, in fact, he won’t specify…
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