Best of the blogs: 07/01/10
(c) altemark
Chicken Yoghurt: The plot against Brown: You just can’t get the staff
One would think and hope that, in their attempt to overthrow Gordon Brown, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt acted alone and under their own …
(c) altemark
Chicken Yoghurt: The plot against Brown: You just can’t get the staff
One would think and hope that, in their attempt to overthrow Gordon Brown, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt acted alone and under their own initiative.
The alternative is too fantastical to contemplate. Imagine a darkened office in the Palace of Westminster where the Brownout plotters are gathered in the shadows. A hand reaches from the darkness for the telephone which is on the desk lit by an angle-poise lamp. Its silhouetted owner’s voice says into the mouthpiece: ‘This is a job for our top operatives. Get me Hoon and Hewitt’. Doesn’t work, does it?
It should have been obvious that the “COP-15″ summit was becoming the COP-OUT summit weeks ago; arguably months and years ago. And it was because of mistakes by those evangelising on climate change, that have now been repeated and compounded. And I write this as a “believer” not a “sceptic”.
Iain Dale When ‘Won’t’ Doesn’t Work
And that’s the difference between Clegg and Cameron. Cameron would never have allowed himself to be pushed like that. He would have answered the question in the first place.
Liberal Conspiracy: The government is smaller than the right admit
The likes of Policy Exchange, and all the hysterics worrying about how large the state has become in the last two years, are misusing one metric – the spending/GDP ratio – to present a false picture of how much of what we do is actually state-determined.
