Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Ben Brogan reports that Gordon Brown's newly appointed "Strategic Communications Adviser" Nick Stace has lasted nine months. That long, eh? He is off to Australia to get as far away as possible from the Prime Mentalist to take up a new job. The Downing Street bunker is returning to the hardcore plus Mandelson. Not a happy place is it?
The UK Housing Bubble (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The ghost of Stalin visits Gordon Brown in a dream. Brown takes advantage of the apparition and asks Stalin for some advice. "The UK economy is on the edge of total meltdown Comrade Stalin, what should I do?" Stalin takes a puff on his pipe and says; "I would advise two measures; first, round up all the bankers in the UK and shoot them. Second, paint Downing Street blue" "Why should I paint...
Salisbury Journal | News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
DISCWORLD author Terry Pratchett will be joined by Salisbury MP Robert Key in a march on Downing Street tomorrow, to present a petition demanding an increase in funding for research into Alzheimer’s disease.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
DOWNING Street last night ditched plans to close 25 Job Centres because of the soaring pace of unemployment in Britain.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The prospects of a bleak Christmas on the high street are rising sharply as a survey out today shows a big fall in consumer spending in spite of lower interest rates and petrol prices. Downing Street's hopes for a consumer-led recovery fired by a cut in VAT will also be further damaged by another report that shows hiring intentions by firms have collapsed, adding to fears that unemployment...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Downing Street denies a shift in policy on the euro after the EC's chief says the UK was "closer than ever before" to joining.
Christian Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Christian charity Toybox submitted a petition to Downing Street on Monday calling on the Government to spend more funding in Latin America
U.S. Politics and the World (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
wquatman posted a reply: Lying to the end. Despite mountains of evidence that Bush knew all a long there were no weapons of mass destruction, Bush still lies about bad intelligence and his lock step followers chant the same crap. The Downing Street memo, the Center for Public Integrity, the senate report, Scott McClellen´s book, Paul O´Neil´s book, all make the claim that Bush decided to attack...
Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Nick Stace is leaving Downing Street to take up new opportunities in Australia (isn't that how they used to describe transportation to Botany Bay'). He's going to run a consumer choice magazine down under. So that's another of the Carter-era...
Moments of Clarity (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The European Commission's president, Jose Manuel Barroso, thinks that we are. According to the BBC ; he told French radio that 'British politicians were considering the move because of the effects of the global credit crunch'. Downing Street denies it and naturally the Conservatives think it is true; "Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said it was "extraordinary" ministers were talking EU...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
DOWNING Street yesterday played down suggestions that Britain was "closer than ever before" to scrapping the pound and replacing it with the euro.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
DOWNING Street yesterday played down suggestions that Britain was "closer than ever before" to scrapping the pound and replacing it with the euro.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Downing Street has today hinted at a review of the procedures that allowed the police to search a Tory frontbencher's office - but not before the current police investigation into Damian Green is over.
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Scotland Yard could have its powers reviewed as Downing Street contemplates the fall-out from the police search of Tory front bencher Damian Green's office.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
WE LIVE in volatile, ungrateful and unpredictable times. That must be the view from Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street. Despite opening the jelly beans this morning to celebrate tha
