Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Jeremy Vine asked Gordon Brown about the June election suggestion made by Geoffrey Robinson Brown insiders in the Standard today. "My undivided attention is on the economy. I am not thinking about anything else. It is 100% of my attention,...
Looking for a voice (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
But this is a recurring pattern in the history of New Labour. Almost all its scandals have involved controversial businessmen. Tony Blair got mixed up with Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One motor-racing tycoon, and the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, not to forget Geoffrey Robinson, the Labour MP who wrongly claimed that he had never received a £200,000 cheque from Robert Maxwell. Peter Mandelson, himself...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I hear that Peter Mandelson is rumoured to be returning to the Labour cabinet via the House of Lords, this time as Business Secretary. This is the slimeball who has had to resign twice from Tony Blair's cabinets, once over the loan from his ministerial colleague Geoffrey Robinson and once over allegations of misconduct over a passport application for the Hinduja brothers. Peter Mandleson's reward for...
Dungeekin. . . (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Seen this morning on BBC News: Mandelson to return to government EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is to return to the government, as Gordon Brown reshuffles his cabinet. Oh, dear sweet merciful {insert deity of choice} NO. Obviously enough time has passed since the Geoffrey Robinson loan and the Hinduja Affair. Snotty McBroon has now scraped well past the bottom of the barrel with this one. I...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
A few months before the general election which brought New Labour to power, Geoffrey Robinson had David Davis to dinner in his flat overlooking Hyde Park. The flat had been the scene of much recent political activity, used as a den by Gordon Brown who would invite his allies around and plot his personal strategy, pausing only to watch the football and eat pizzas. But that night the Labour guests had...
Coventry Green Voice (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Harry's Place explores allegations that Gordon Brown tried to get Martin Bright, the editor of the New Statesman, fired. The New Statesman's publisher is our MP for Coventry North-West, Geoffrey Robinson, one of Brown's oldest friends: [Charlie] Whelan duly gave Thorpe and listening hacks a rambling monologue in which he insisted her husband and the father of her two children should be fired. "I'm...
Commonweal Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's new book represents a signal accomplishment in the genre of writings by disgruntled ex-something-or-others. Even as Robinson retired in order to write it, the (...)
Voice from the Desert (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
From the website of Foreign Policy magazine, August 2008. Posted on the katholica YahooGroup by Earlene Mara. Thanks, Earlene. * * * What might drive a committed Roman Catholic bishop to resign his office after almost 25 years and denounce his church? In the case of Geoffrey Robinson of Sydney, it was the church’s meltdown during the [...]
The Bag Lady (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
[Main image: Geoffrey Robinson/Rex Features] This weekend just gone saw some of music's biggest stars take to the stages at V Festival in Chelmsford and Staffordshire and while we are always all about the music, but of course, we Shiny Fashion girls wouldn't be, well, Shiny Fashion girls, if we weren't also about the festival fashion too! So of course we couldn't turn a blind eye to Girls Aloud and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Geoffrey Robinson is one of more than 50 Labour MPs to sign a petition calling for a tax on the 'spike' in energy firms' profits
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Geoffrey Robinson is one of more than 50 Labour MPs to sign a petition calling for a tax on the 'spike' in energy firms' profits
mediawatchwatch.org.uk (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
According to The Bookseller, Random House do not feel they have acted unreasonably in shelving Sherry Jones’ burka-ripping Mo-ro The Jewel of Medina in the face of imagined threats from radical Islamists. The Guardian reports that Geoffrey Robinson QC, who defended Rushdie during the Satanic Verses affair, has called on Random House to pay “substantial compensation” [...]
The Brooks Blog (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
. . . and I agree with Geoffrey Robinson that the primary problem with the law of murder is that it fails to distinguish. (Details here .)
Voice from the Desert (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Received via email from Bob Schutzius of the Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church (ARCC). Thanks, Bob. * * * ARCC spot LIGHT (a book review by R. Schutzius) A Kingdom or Way of Living? Getting your attention is the first rule in teaching. Bishop Geoffrey Robinson has done that in his book Confronting Power [...]
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Datamonitor founder Mike Danson, who bought half of left-leaning current affairs mag New Statesman from Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson in April, has invested a five-figure sum to buy a majority of unofficial Labour party blog LabourHome . New Direction, a fellow Labour blog, reported the news, saying co-founder Jag Singh and editor Alex Hilton will stay on board: "Views from the bottom, cash and editorial...
