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Andy Coulson’s resigns as Cameron’s Communication Chief
You wait ages for one resignation and then two come along at once. I’d just finished writing my blog posting on Alan Johnson’s resignation when I saw on the news that Andy Coulson had just decided to...
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Bad news for the British economy
Well the latest ONS (Office for National Statistics) figures are just out and they make gloomy reading. The British economy contracted by 0.5% over the last quarter from October to December. These...
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The Liberal Democrat result in the Barnsley by-election
Last nights by-election result in Barnsley shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone. The victory of Dan Jarvis was a forgone conclusion as Barnsley has been a safe Labour seat for years, and short of a...
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What are the big questions in the phone hacking scandal?
News International’s announcement that there was widespread phone hacking at the News of the World shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. More and more celebrities had started legal proceedings...
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The local elections, the referendum and the Liberal Democrats
I originally wrote this as an article for yesterdays Nottingham Post newspaper but thought that it would also make a good blog post. It’s difficult to imagine how last Thursday’s election could have...
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The political impact of the phone hacking scandal
I know we live in a world where moral outrage is cheap and hyperbole has become the norm, but the latest revelations in the News of the World phone hacking scandal are genuinely horrific. The idea that...
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Could 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...
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The folly of cutting police funding
I’ve seen a lot of knee jerk responses to the civil unrest that has swept Britain in recent days. These have come from both the public and the media; people are scared and angry so this is...
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Great mistakes in politics (No35) Liam Fox’s friendship with Adam Werritty
There’s an old saying in politics about keeping your friends close but your enemies closer. In this case it looks like UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox made the mistake of keeping his friends too close....
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Great mistakes in politics (No36) Francis Maude causes panic at the pumps
A golden rule for politicians should always be ‘think before you speak’. However more often than not they don’t. Actually in some cases it’s almost as if they’d thought very carefully about what the...
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