Day: 7 February 2010

Emotion Alastair Campbell was overcome and had to take a moment on the Andrew Marr show, when pressed on whether his boss Tony Blair, for whom he was chief scriptwriter, mislead Parliament over weapons of mass destruction. It was all getting too  much apparently, with people ‘settling old scores’. Yes well… The nation is angry […]

Storm Cloud So the markets have woken up the the huge indebtedness of certain Euro countries, with crisis torn Greece to the fore, but Ireland, Portugal and Spain moving into the frame. At the moment we escape because we have the pound which has been heavily devalued to help us along, a false dawn because eventually […]

Education The Tory high command has to get a grip. Just weeks ago it was considered a certainty that David Cameron would lead his party to victory in the spring. He was treated virtually as a Prime Minister in Waiting. But all that has changed. There have been blunders and muddles and even Tories I […]