5 days ago by maryhoneyballmep

Judging by the amount of media coverage generated by David Miliband’s New Statesman article of the “is he going to challenge his brother for the Labour leadership” variety, you would be forgiven for thinking this the at the very top of the political pops. Yet it manifestly is not. David Miliband has ...

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5 days ago by Tell Fren Tru

The New Statesman cover story this week carries a cautionary tale about the dangers of being crowned too early. As object lesson, the writer, Simon Akam, cited the case of Captain Valentine Strasser, former military leader of Sierra Leone, who now is reduced to drinking gin by the roadside in front ...

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6 days ago by pdanderson

First of all, I should say, I’m a big fan of Nicholas Lezard. I consider his weekly column ‘Down and Out in London’, published in the hinterlands of the New Statesman, to be part of my weekly reward structure. The title of the column gives you the gist of the content, so I was a [...]

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8 days ago by Rob

written for New Statesman by Robert Pollard Chancellor’s obsession with spending cuts could cause ‘lasting damage’ to UK economy. The fears of those who feel the government’s economic policy is flawed have been echoed by the director of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) ...

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8 days ago by Rob

written for New Statesman – words by Robert Pollard Xstrata and Glencore in talks over merger deal. Xstrata and Glencore, two giant raw materials firms, are in talks over a possible merger that if successful would create a new company potentially worth £50m. The two Swiss companies have urged cautio ...

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10 days ago by Will Heaven

It’s over. No one on the Left can pretend any longer that David Miliband is impressed with his brother’s leadership of the Labour Party. In a scathing New Statesman essay this week, he writes of “Reassurance Labour”. It’s a tendency that “reduces our chances of election”, he says, because it confuse ...

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17 days ago by Dan Hodges

The Flat-Earthers have a new toy. It’s called "framing". Framing is about to become to the hard Left what "triangulation" was to the New Labour centrists. Articles will be written about it; conferences held to dissect and promote its possibilities and limitations. The more enterprising will even get ...

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19 days ago by Tom Freeman

Mehdi Hasan's latest piece in the New Statesman about how Labour consistently allow the Tories set the political agenda through the use of language accurately sums up how I've assessed the Labour party since I stopped flirting with the youth wing of the party in my teenage years. Stephen Timms, shad ...

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29 days ago by Anthony Watts

Press release London, 13 January: A climate bet proposed by the BBC’s radio programme “More or Less” four years ago has been won by Dr David Whitehouse, a former BBC Science Editor and a scientific adviser to the Global Warming Policy … Continue reading →

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33 days ago by Daniel Hannan

Our relations with the EU may be about to change radically, irreversibly and positively. Last month, David Cameron refused the other governments recourse to the EU treaties in pursuit of their plan for fiscal integration. Now we have their response: they plan to ignore Britain’s veto and go ahead an ...

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