Showing posts with label David Miliband. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Miliband. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

The Joy of Six 1477

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Martin Parr  looks at successful and unsuccessful attempts to depose a prime minister: "Labour, significantly, has never toppled a prim...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Pointless offers a warning to Change UK

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Embed from Getty Images Change UK - or the Tiggers, as I still think of them - announced their Euro candidates today. There are some nam...
Saturday, January 06, 2018

Chapter and verse from Pointless on how little interest most people take in politics

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Embed from Getty Images A couple of days ago I wrote that the television quiz Pointless reminds us how little most people know about poli...
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Thursday, October 05, 2017

Being Jacob Rees-Mogg is a full-time occupation

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Embed from Getty Images The thing about really posh people is that they make it look effortless. Think of Prince William or David Camero...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Cleverball, surfball and New Labour grandees

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View image | gettyimages.com London 1958: Boys play cleverball in the street Last night David Miliband mystified the nation. In...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Lord Bonkers advised Labour against having Gordon Brown as leader

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If I am unable to sleep, I turn to the diaries of Lord Bonkers - they usually do the job quite quickly. Every now and then, however, I c...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Six of the Best 360

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Mark Pack writes on rediscovering and modernising community politics. Labour was lazy in the South Shields by-election, but Strange Tho...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Six of the Best 338

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So Sam Said... says: "The Miliband Problem, for me, is the fact that our politics has been professionalised and has become a game. A...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

The International Rescue Committee - David Miliband's new employer

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This synopsis of Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA by Eric Thomas Chester casts an interesting ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

David Miliband to leave parliament immediately

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From the Daily Mirror site this evening: David Miliband is to stun Parliament by stepping down as an MP tomorrow to take up a “dream job”...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013

The nonsense of Labour's welfare policy

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I am with the Liberal Democrat MPs who rebelled over the one per cent cap of benefit increases after yesterday's debate. As Caroline L...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Boris Johnson: Will his ambitions be left hanging on a zip wire?

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If it had happened to any other politician we would be laughing at him. It is a mark of Boris Johnson's unique political qualities tha...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

My Boris Johnson prize quiz closes this evening

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A reminder that, to mark his re-election as Mayor of London, Liberal England is offering you the chance to win a Boris Johnson finger pup...
Friday, May 04, 2012

Win your very own Boris Johnson finger puppet!

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To mark his re-election as Mayor of London, Liberal England offers you the chance to win a Boris Johnson finger puppet. Many thanks to Ru...
Monday, October 04, 2010

Chris Huhne: David Miliband lost because he was honest about the scale of the deficit

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Friday, October 01, 2010

Calder on Air: Debut of a new column

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After writing House Points for more than 10 years it was time for a change. Writing a weekly column can be a bit of a treadmill, and I was b...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

David Miliband on Ed Miliband: "I diskard him"

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David Miliband writes: Gosh chiz this is miliband 2 my bro he is uterly wet and a weed it panes me to think I am of the same blud. He is al...
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David Miliband, brotherly rivalry and the nature of modern politics

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I have never been able to get too excited about the Miliband brothers. Not until this evening did I grasp how much more impressive David tha...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

Why Labour does not appeal to Liberal Democrats

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Nick Cohen has a good article in today's Observer (I learn over the web from my New York hotel bedroom) about the case of Paul Chambers...
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Neil Kinnock and the paranoid school of Labour politics

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Neil Kinnock had his say on the Labour leadership election the other day. He accused David Miliband's supporters of spreading "blo...
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