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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Britain's most successful transport campaigner has come top of the first comprehensive list of the country's most effective greens, compiled by The Independent on Sunday. The little-known John Stewart, who leads the onslaught against a third runway at Heathrow, soundly beats far more high-profile figures – from Jonathon Porritt to Zac Goldsmith, from Sir David Attenborough to Prince Charles...
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Ten Percent (Free subscription) | yesterday
... billionaire boss. The Government has always maintained that the meeting with Mr Ecclestone, a major new Labour donor at the time, did not influence the final decision to offer the exemption. However the previously secret papers show that Mr Blair did order ministers to find ways to implement the “derogation” for Formula One after the meeting. The revelation casts doubt on the version of...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
NFL fans know what this means: A hair raising close that can go against the team that plays against the deep threat only.If you have any doubt about the volatility of presidential elections, and the background on the 1992 British elections in which John Major was expected to lose, but in fact stayed Prime Minister. See:
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
NFL fans know what this means: A hair raising close that can go against the team that plays against the deep threat only.If you have any doubt about the volatility of presidential elections, and the background on the 1992 British elections in which John Major was expected to lose, but in fact stayed Prime Minister. See:
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Times Online - David Aaronovitch (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... leadership for Kinnock in '83, when Peter Mandelson was predicting Hattersley. I did the same for John Major in '90, when all around me were Hurdites. I got Blair, Hague and Cameron (with a blip over Iain Duncan Smith). But now? Sarah Palin? It never occurred to me that John McCain would so contaminate his brand of pragmatic conservatism as to run with a tyro far-right ignoramus,...
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The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
It seems very clear to me that politicians are a shameless bunch. And it was ever thus, glancing back through time where even reasonably good eggs like John Major were quick to be shameless when needed. However, the new century has brought with it some astounding levels of brass neck : Of all the characteristics of a successful politician, none is more essential than bare-faced cheek....
