Why can’t we be more intelligent about assessing the impact of resigning ministers? It means something if the good ones go. But why furrow the brow for the chaff?
Current Housing Minister Caroline Flint is said to have had to be persuaded not to resign by the so-called ‘ginger chipmunk’, Hazel Blears. Transport Secretary, Ruth Kelly [...]
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As someone who has already complained about Dunoon’s “interesting” attitude to large capital projects on this website, to read the headline today on forargyll.com regarding “competition” for funding for regeneration in Argyll between our five major towns is deeply distressing. No-one seems to be taking the council to task on this, especially those [...]
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When the US government is prepared to spend this sort of cash it makes you wonder what they could have spent the money on before the crisis. Given that there are just over 300 Million people in the US, George ‘Dubya‘ Bush is going to be spending $2,500 per person to support a [...]
The most fabulous political photo for yonks was in Tuesday’s Daily Mail (23rd September) - centre spread, pages 8 - 9. It was an unforgettable moment after David Miliband’s speech to the Labour Party Conference on Monday. Apparently dismissing his own ambitions, he’d conjured an adolescent crush on his leader’s achievements (abroad, not at home!) [...]
Does anybody else think he looks like the Invisible Man fresh out of the bandages?
