Well, it happened. Not quite as anyone had been expecting, but it happened. The moment we’ve dreaded for the last three years. David Cameron is the new Prime Minister. I can’t say I will be sorry to see Brown go. I can’t say New Labour didn’t deserve to lose this election. I can say I [...]
Gordon Brown: Labour is the party of the middle classes. Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
The world may be getting warmer, but, for one day at least, it looks as if hell is getting colder. What’s that? A piece of good news from Copenhagen? No, my friend, not one piece, but two! Not only is Europe pledging €2.4bn a year to help developing nations cope with the cost of climate [...]
David Cameron and Nick Clegg have already written off this year’s Queen’s Speech as pointless political posturing, filled with legislation that will never see the light of day before the next general election. The implication being, neither men expect Gordon Brown to be residing at the same address this time next year. Of course, as [...]
As the London Review of Books celebrates its 30th birthday today, JW Arble picks out ten of his favourites from the new online archive Until I read Stefan Collini’s essay on the state of British universities I didn’t know what they were for, why so many of them seem to be in a mess or [...]
Guest post by Guy Aitchison It is time for those who want a new politics to work together for change With the party conferences over and MPs returning to Westminster today following their 82-day break, now seems like a good moment to reflect on the crisis that engulfed the political class during the early summer [...]
Gordon Brown is far more popular in the rest of the world than he is in his own country. Is it time for constitutional reform? Gordon Brown won the world statesman of the year award last week. I know. I’m as surprised as you. The prime minister was honoured for his leadership on the economic [...]
In the old days, the samurai of Japan would commit seppuku to save themselves from disgrace. Plunging their swords into their innards, they would disembowel themselves to die with honour rather than fall into the hands of their enemies. Gordon Brown has no such honour, limping and quacking on, come what may, to defeat as [...]
I’m a Guardian reader. Middle-class, well educated, long-haired and liberal, I don’t exactly dispel the stereotypes associated with the paper whose readers think they ought to run the country. Nor, as one of those lefty, anti-war, environmentalist types who grew up worrying about the state of the world, should it come as any surprise that [...]
Guest post by Andy Yee “If we are serious about the ambition of a nuclear-free world we will need statesmanship, not brinkmanship,” Gordon Brown said today as he told the UN General Assembly that Britain was preparing to cut its nuclear arsenal and warned Iran and North Korea of further sanctions. North Korea’s missile launch [...]
