Showing posts with label Gordon Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gordon Brown. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 13, 2026

‘They were casting out demons’: Scottish manager recalls attending exorcism with Gordon Brown to sign a player

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Embed from Getty Images "This one's a doozy. The lads have really given it 110 per cent today," remarked the clerk who brought...
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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Thursday, June 27, 2024

Sunak should not resign as Tory leader after he loses the election

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He has not, God knows, been much of a leader, and it's not even certain that he will be returned for Richmond and Northallerton next wee...
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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Alistair Darling's politics were not as dull as people are saying

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I'm sorry to hear of the death of Alistair Darling. We owe him our gratitude as, together with Gordon Brown, he did much to stabilise th...
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Sunday, November 26, 2023

Rev., Tom Hollander and the shrinking market for Nick Clegg trivia

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I went to put some flowers on my mother's grave this afternoon. When I got back I saw a tweet by Andrew Male about rewatching Tom Holla...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Cadbury's Dairy Milk and the supersonic Seventies

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As I remember it, this is where the Seventies began. There were no more flower children or village green preservation societies: we had land...
Wednesday, June 01, 2022

The hole in the middle of that Dominic Cummings interview

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Dominic Cummings' interview with Suzanne Moore has garnered plenty of attention, but for me the most remarkable thing about it is the h...
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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Boris Johnson tells lies with his hands on the Bible

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I've just come across this video of the actor Ian Richardson on the BBC's Sunday AM programme in 2006, the year before he died. In t...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Chris Leslie joins the bailiffs

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Embed from Getty Images Sitting on the front bench, Tony Blair surveyed the massed ranks of his parliamentary intake and then lent over to G...
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Thursday, March 05, 2020

Hemel Hempstead wasn't built in a day

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Embed from Getty Images A lovely paragraph from the Guardian obituary of the historian Paul Addison : His work not only demonstrated how...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

John Major's eulogy at Paddy Ashdown's memorial service

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A memorial service for Paddy Ashdown was held at Westminster Abbey today, attended by four former prime ministers: Tony Blair, Gordon Brow...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Child migrants to receive government compensation at last

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Embed from Getty Images The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse can now point to a solid achievement. The government, reports B...
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Monday, April 09, 2018

Richard Branson quotes me in his new autobiography

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Unable to sleep in the small hours, I reached from my Kindle. As you do, I tried a bit of ego-surfing on Google Books - and this was on...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Alexei Sayle explains why Blair and Brown were like a comedy double act

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Embed from Getty Images Today's Guardian has an article by Simon Parkin about comedy double acts and how they break up. Peter Cook ...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016

Sell George Osborne

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If George Osborne ever hits a target, it will look something like this... Thanks to Jeremy Corbyn and the rabble around him, George Osbo...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Gordon Brown as Susan Boyle

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From the Telegraph , 1 June 2009: Speaking on GMTV Mr Brown said he watched the final on Saturday night and described the winning dance ...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Eynsham Cricket Club stands on the Cameron/Osborne fault

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I like to think Eynsham's ground looks like this David Cameron is a patrician Conservative from a land-owning and banking background...
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Saturday, May 09, 2015

Chris Leslie demonstrates how to get ahead in politics

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Chris Leslie first swam into my consciousness by starring in an an anecdote about the first parliamentary session following Labour's lan...
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...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Would it be a tragedy if there were no televised election debates?

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#98485469 / gettyimages.com The broadcasters are struggling to arrive at fair arrangements for leaders' debates in next year...
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