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Detained by George Osborne

Full coverage of UK Politics A further sign last night, at Policy Exchange's lavish summer party, that David Davis's Shadow Cabinet colleagues were not entirely enthusiastic about his decision to quit. In his speech, guest of honour George Osborne ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: George Osborne,  David Davis

Gordon Brown: the Lee McQueen of politics

Of course, it's a given that far more people - myself, I'm ashamed to say, included - paid more attention to The Apprentice than a vital threat to our civil liberties. But it's been utterly gripping telly - so much so that the Beeb have proposed a ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  12 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Adrian Chiles,  Victoria Wood,  Simon Heffer,  Andrew Rawnsley

US elections: bitching, blogs and bias

Full coverage of the US elections 2008 As the primary campaign winds down, some new research is answering the more intriguing questions raised about the role of the press. Were they biased towards Barack Obama, as Hillary Clinton claimed? Not according ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  5 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Project for Excellence in Journalism,  U.S. Democratic Party,  John McCain

Bill Clinton's communication breakdown

Parlez-vous Clinton? Bill's doing it by the book Yes, it would be nice to learn a few tricks from Bill - when I saw him up close a while back he was easily the most charismatic person I've ever met. But as slightly more than half of the Democratic ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  2 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Mark Penn,  Barack Obama

Will Steve Hilton be carbon neutral?

But while it will be perfectly possible for Hilton to do much of his work by phone/email, he will also 'be coming back fairly frequently to touch base'. In which case, will the Tories stump up to offset the hefty carbon emissions involved in the ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  2 Jun 2008

Is the conventional wisdom about British politics nonsense?

I've just been reading a fascinating book called Moneyball, by Michael Lewis. It tells the story of how a group of baseball obsessives stripped down the statistics behind the sport they loved, proving that the best ways to win bore little relation to ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  1 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Michael Lewis

How to really respect the Armed Forces

Tomorrow is the last day of Fleet Week, when the ships of the US navy tie up alongside Manhattan and the streets are thronged with sailors in their crisp white uniforms. A naval choir were singing in Times Square, to whoops and applause; Marines in ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  27 May 2008

Doctor Who: Moffat takes over the Tardis

Why am I - and all the other geeky types in the Telegraph - doing little dances of joy? Because while Davies has reinvigorated Doctor Who, it was Moffat (previously the writer of Coupling) who gave the show its class, producing episodes that were among ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  20 May 2008
Related Topics: David Tennant

A song for Gordon Brown

But if Crewe & Nantwich goes badly, and the discontent in the tearoom mounts, Mr Brown's colleagues might be tempted to slip the Clash on to his iPod alongside the Arctic Monkeys. Consider the lyrics of 'Should I Stay or Should I Go?' - "This ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  17 May 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown

Which department is least fit for purpose?

Such is the conclusion of the Financial Times's breakdown of Whitehall's own 'capability reviews' into how well each ministry of state is functioning. At the bottom of the list, surprise surprise, is the old Home Office, before it was split up, closely ...

From ROBERT COLVILE, The Telegraph,  12 May 2008
Related Topics: Daniel Hannan

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