Great mistakes in politics (No23) – Gordon Brown sells Britain’s gold reserves
Gordon Brown is probably not going to be remembered as one of the Great British Prime Ministers. His short time in power saw his government lurch from disaster to disaster, eventually culminating in...
View ArticlePolitical predictions they got wrong (No20) An end to boom and bust
There’s a very old joke that goes something like this, “How do you make God laugh?”, the punchline is “Tell him your future plans”. Despite the fact that predicting the future is as about as easy as...
View ArticleCould the phone hacking scandal be the making of Ed Miliband?
It’s often said that a week is a long time in politics, and never has this been more true than recently. In the space of just seven days we’ve seen one of Britain’s oldest and largest newspapers shut...
View ArticleGreat mistakes in politics (No34) Gordon Brown insults Gillian Duffy
A good rule of politics is to not insult your own voters. An even better rule is to not insult them while you’re being recorded by the media. One of the reasons people are so cynical in this country is...
View ArticleGreat political movies (No48) The Deal
For a man who was Prime Minister of Britain for over a decade, Tony Blair seems to have quickly faded from the public’s memory. With the exception of Iraq and the Northern Irish peace process, it’s...
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