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Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall...
The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamber Is it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons , drove out those atmospheric,...
Martin Bell tells Sarah Falkland about his general election plans The leading independent campaigner Martin Bell says he is "unlikely" to stand at the next general election. Mr Bell says he has not completely ruled out another...
Lady Ashton is apparently a perfectly personable woman, but she was only chosen because she ticked the right boxes If someone held the patent for the word "nice" they would make a fortune today: the only thing anyone can find...
Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humour It's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later,...
Tony Blair has not yet been asked if he is interested in succeeding George Burley as Scotland manager although, since just about everybody else has been, it seems only a matter of time before he has to tender his answer, too....
The verse-writing of the new president of the European Council is good in parts, says the former poet laureate First let me say this: on balance, I would far rather that people in politics were writing poetry than not. Where...
The appointment as a little-known peer to become Europe's first "foreign minister" stunned and dismayed many in Westminster today, prompting a barrage of briefing against Britain's most senior female politician.
Do I detect a certain regret that Tony Blair failed in his bid to become president of the European council ( Comment , Leaders , 20 November)? Is there a single person left in this country who does not share in the shame of the...
"Never write about any matter that you do not well understand" – advice to us journalists once given by one of the very greatest, William Cobbett. In my many years as a newspaper columnist I have tried (perhaps not always...
