Brown is Blair without the charm – and there ain’t much else left

Eight short months ago, Gordon Brown was surfing the high breakers of British politics like Patrick Swayzee in Point Break. The great and the grim of the business world lined up with the great and the gross of the chateratti to enter his big ministerial tent – Digby Jones and Julia Neuberger spring to mind. [...]

Imagine Davies, Bercow and Mercer’s Sunday breakfast

As Quentin Davies, John Bercow and Patrick Mercer MPs fumble, bleary-eyed for the Sunday morning box of Fruit n’ Fibre this morning, they may be reflecting painfully on the issue of timing. Opportunism fine, guys. But get the timing right, yeah? 
Phillip Oppenheim