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The Independent (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
As the voters of Glasgow East delivered their damning verdict on Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister took his wife, Sarah, to watch the Royal Shakespeare Company perform Hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avon. The timing was unfortunate. Yesterday, the air was thick with rumours of backbench and cabinet-level plots of regicide, as what some have called the "Shakespearean tragedy" of his political career took...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
As the voters of Glasgow East delivered their damning verdict on Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister took his wife, Sarah, to watch the Royal Shakespeare Company perform Hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avon. The timing was unfortunate. Yesterday, the air was thick with rumours of backbench and cabinet-level plots of regicide, as what some have called the "Shakespearean tragedy" of his political career took...
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IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Andrew Grice "They think it's all over -- it is now." That's what a lot of Labour MPs will be thinking today -- not about the 1966 World Cup Final, but Gordon Brown's premiership after Labour's stunning and unexpected...
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IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
By Andrew Grice I hear there's some interesting traffic among Labour MPs about a proposal that MPs should be banned from having paid second jobs. Former ministers who have taken on lucrative jobs are - surprise, surprise - opposing the...
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IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
By Andrew Grice The slogan "families need fathers" may be about to take on a new meaning. Politicians from all parties have been banging on for years about the need for fathers to pay their fair share towards the upbringing...
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IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By Andrew Grice Deep gloom among the (small number) of Labour MPs who are still at Westminster; many are already "in their constituencies" (or on hols) because the Commons starts its 11-week summer recess tomorrow. Their latest bout of depression...
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IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Andrew Grice No wonder Gordon Brown trod carefully when he announced that Britain's military campaign in Iraq could be over by next spring. In a Commons statement, the PM did not talk numbers, having had his fingers burned when...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... Joan Bakewell Terence Blacker Simon Carr Rupert Cornwell Mary Dejevsky Hermione Eyre Robert Fisk Andrew Grice Adrian Hamilton Johann Hari Philip Hensher Howard Jacobson Dominic Lawson John Lichfield Donald Macintyre Hamish McRae Matthew Norman Deborah Orr Christina Patterson John Rentoul Steve Richards Sarah Sands Joan Smith Mark Steel Janet Street-Porter Alan Watkins Andreas Whittam...
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ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
ToryDiary: Project Cameron has evolved but has been remarkably consistent overall Local government: Labour set to give 'bin men' new reasons not to collect your rubbish Platform: Andrew Palmer looks at the prospect of a post-Mandela South Africa Economy going...
