God's judgment
The claims that this summer's unseasonal weather are the result of global warming continue. Whether you believe that global warming is the result of anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions, like the majority, or of permissive attitudes to…
Time for an SDP moment
The tensions that have been festering in the Conservative Party since the end of Dave Cameron's brief honeymoon (and, indeed, much longer than that) are breaking out into open sores (again), following the unfortunate coincidence of Tory…
Review of the Papers, Monday 02 July
Government Gordon Brown made a decisive break with Tony Blair's "sofa government" yesterday as he promised that the Cabinet would in future be involved in decision-making. In a noticeable dig at his predecessor's informal style of…
Poll result - and the new poll
An overwhelming majority of you are negative about the new Labour leadership. 45% thought that Brown would be a change for the worse and 41% didn't think they'd be much change, but wished there was. That is 86% who aren't happy with the…
Policy Announcements, Monday 02 July
Government The home secretary has briefed MPs on the attacks in London and Glasgow, saying that new anti-terrorism legislation will be brought forward. ****Jacqui Smith told the Commons that so far six arrests had been made in connection…
Gordon's Business Council
Is Gordon having problems with his new Business Council already? Curiously, if you go to the No 10 website and look at the index of press releases, there is no mention of the one announcing his plan for the cosy group of corporates advising…
Failure is not an option. Really - you can't fail.
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) - they really do have a quango for everything - recommended this year in a letter to the former Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, that the A* grade should only go to students who get 9…
Big Business Council for Britain
Life just got worse for the little guy. Gordon has always believed that "business" = "the major corporates and City institutions". His understanding of the impact of his policies, and therefore the policies themselves, have been conditioned…
Who said crime doesn't pay?
A couple of days ago I said the two worst departments to get your hands on as a Secretary of State have to be the Department of Health and the new Ministry of Justice. Well, in the first full day, what a surprise but it is the DoH and MofJ…
New Government, same old MTAS
Good bye Tony. Hello Gordon. Cabinet reshuffle. The Miliband brothers. Jacqui Smith. DCSF. DIUS. DBERR. Car bomb found in the West End. Spice girls reforming. It's been a busy 24 hours or so. So busy in fact, then what better day to "bury…
Review of the Papers, Friday 29 June
Government The fiasco surrounding junior doctor training deepened yesterday after it emerged that parts of the discredited application process are still in place. The online Modern Training Application Service was dropped in April after…
Jowell to report directly to Brown. I wonder why...?
Still no official word on what the Ministers for the regions are actually meant to do. Bgprior has had a stab at it here - how very cynical. And probably right. They will just be another layer of government to shift the blame around so no…