Lightwater (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Journalists are privy to many things that aren’t published, such as Andrew Marr’s secret love child, but Robert Peston seems to delight in not only reporting news but in interpreting it to. Fine for sex scandals, but in times of financial meltdown I’d like a touch more circumspection please. I agree with THIS on Guido’s blog. I know [...]
Andrew Allison (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Yesterday, on the Andrew Marr Show, Vince Cable argued interest rates should be cut by 2% in order to restore some confidence in the economy. A sound idea, and I read what he had to say in full in The Sunday Times earlier. When Marr turned to Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, I assumed he would agree. To my surprise and dismay, he disagreed. I was talking to a fellow activist over dinner last week...
Banking Times: Daily Banking News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, has stated that the Government will assist banks that get into difficulties. Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Mr Darling outlined the Government’s generalised support for the UK banking sector and confirmed that if a bank is in danger of collapse, specific action will be taken, as [...]
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Is Jackie Ashley right - is it now “Emergency Labour”? I thought that we could not let this day pass by without recalling that it was exactly a year ago, on October 6th 2007, that Gordon Brown recorded his fateful interview with Andrew Marr calling off a late autumn general election. Everything about the current political [...]
BBC | Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
"We are looking at some pretty big steps which we would not take in ordinary times but we are ready to take them..." That's what Alistair Darling just told my colleague Andrew Marr. But what can these be? They have already agreed to trade private banking dirt for Bank of England gold, effectively, by allowing US student debt and credit card debt (judging by my stay in Ann Arbor, home to UMich, the...
Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
From today's interview with Andrew Marr* Well what matters most of all is safeguarding the depositors in a bank like Bradford & Bingley. That is the absolute key. And I think what obviously is preferable is a private sale, so the business is a going concern. But I think what we've got to do in this country is get away from a situation where the only choice if you can't have a private sale is to throw...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Extracts from the Tory leader's interview with Andrew Marr this morning
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
On Andrew Marr's Sunday programme David Cameron discussed the Conservative commitment to establish a new Office of Budget Responsibility. The Tory leader said that the taxpayer-funded Office would regularly produce an independent assessment of progress towards a balanced budget. It...
Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Listening to Conservative leader David Cameron set me wondering if bankers will vote Labour after the bailout. He was being interviewed by Andrew Marr on BBC 1. Cameron wants increased powers to regulate banking sector. Who for? The Bank of England. Doesn't he know that was nationalised in 1946? So the swashbuckling free marketeers want a nationalised institution to regulate bank lending. This raises...
Aaronovitch Watch (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
With apologies to Oscar Wilde. Part of the reason for the mistrust of Brown was private knowledge of his excessive drinking, which exacerbated his rude and aggressive style of politics. Wikipedia. Before he interviewed Gordon Brown last week, Andrew Marr talked to Guy Garvey of popular music combo elbow. Of their Mercury Prize celebrations, Marr observed, approvingly, "You're heroic drinkers,
Havering On (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
In today's political world it's as much about what you look like as what you say. Yesterday on Andrew Marr Gordon Brown looked absolutely awful, his face is pudgy. his eyes circled with black rings and his pallor was shot. His talk of aspirational policies such as the nursery scheme are redolent of a government bereft of real ideas; he's clutching at imaginary straws in an effort to ward off defeat....
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
On the basis that a Prime Minister should not be able to mislead his country every time he opens his mouth, here is a list of the Brownies to which we were treated on the Andrew Marr Show this morning. The sheer volume of them is overwhelming: this is carefully woven-together matrix of exaggeration, misrepresentation and outright porkies in order to create a fake picture of prosperity. Here is the...
Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
The last comment here presumably related to today's interview, rather than the one they did back in May, which prompts me to read the transcript * thereof. Think what you will**, it strikes me that Andrew Marr has a genuine, deep-seated loathing of the The Goblin King. I'd warmly recommend anybody to read the full transcript, if you have five minutes to spare, but here are a few highlights: .....................
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
I thought Gordon did quite well on Andrew Marr this morning but I can't quite help the feeling that we are going to "march up the hill" to face down the bankers only to "march straight back down" realising that we cannot regulate the sector sufficiently. Afterall, why work for the FSA setting the rules when you can earn ten times the amount for a bank bending them. With that in mind how about this...
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
By Andrew Grice in Manchester Gordon Brown described his Cabinet as "pretty united" in his interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC today. Although the Prime Minister was more confident and relaxed than his predicament might have suggested, his Freudian...
