Julia Hobsbawm's Editorial Intelligence held a soiree at the RSA on Wednesday about the Influence of the Commentariat. They had surveyed a hundred or so of the Commentariat and invited them to the event to discuss their findings. The great and the good of the chatterati...
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Sacked: Charles Clarke lost his job as Home Secretary in 2006 over the foreign criminal scandal Less than a third of the foreign criminals at the centre of the scandal which claimed a top political scalp have been kicked out of...
Er.... Simon Jenkins has written a quite-good piece on local democracy. I missed it a few weeks ago, but in the interests of balance, I should add it here.I suppose the only major criticism (there are a number of minor gripes)...
On this day fourteen years ago, a young new Labour leader promised a 'crusade for national change'. Today the press discusses a 'welfare revolution' proposed by a young Blairite, tipped by some to be a future Labour leader....
LONDON -- Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama brushed aside Republican criticism of his overseas trip on Saturday and stood outside the famed 10 Downing Street to say that both President Bush and Sen. John McCain...