Here’s a snatch from Goldsmith’s epitaph for Burke, quoted in this piece from Christopher Lydon in conversation with David Bromwich: Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow’d his mind, And to party gave up what was meant ...
As Guido notes, the Conservative’s in-house digi-guru Rishi Saha has been appointed as a civil servant in a “to-be-merged Downing Street and Cabinet Office online team as Deputy Director of Communications”. He’s the one who curated the ‘Blue Blog’, the party’s first step into the often boisterous world of the blogosphere… Guido appends this note: ...
Things are getting heavy for Gordon Brown as he heads for his premiership’s first real electoral test in May. Between them, the local government elections, the London Assembly and Mayoral elections, will provide him with a stern test as his first full year draws to a close. Over at Brassneck, I’ve argued that in the ...
Frazer Nelson is one of the sharpest observers of the New Labour project. All the sharper for being well outside Labour’s domestic melodrama of the last few years. On the occasion of Brown’s ascendency he offers some insight into what faces the Tory’s most popular leader since, well, John Major. They can, he now argues, ...
Apparently I’ve been tagged twice for this blog meme idea started by Matt Wardman, so you can see my thoughts on Labour’s new leader below the fold. I’ve deliberately avoided foreign policy, and not laboured exclusively on his handling of the economy. I’ve been tagged by Anthony over at OpenDemocracy, so here’s my late offering: ...