Not another personal memoir, surely. Apart from the obvious motive of trying to retain a drop of fast-fading publicity, this latest wallowing in an orgy of self-importance in Mandelson’s diaries is yet another painful reminder of the personality-obsessed, policy-vacuous utter lack of ideology, direction and vision of the New Labour years. It’s almost as though [...]
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Three cheers for a Con-Dem Cut
May 24th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.There will be rejoicing throughout the land as the axe falls today on the Ministerial limo. No more will every minister have a car and driver on hand at their beck and call. A car pool will have to do. And, now and again, public transport. The credit, it seems, should go to my old [...]
