Blog posts tagged "coalition"

February 10, 2011 8:14 am 28 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on how political events have been keeping him on his toes - including the confirmation of the resignation of Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott live on air.

December 23, 2010 11:48 am 28 Comments

Is Rupert Murdoch's take-over bid for BSkyB going to be resolved in the end by the judges? 2011 promises to be a prosperous one for at least one branch of the Bar, blogs Jon Snow.

November 11, 2010 9:27 am 60 Comments

Jon Snow asks if the UK would be in a welfare crisis if the housing sector was more healthy.

July 31, 2010 12:25 pm 132 Comments

August is upon us and the Cameron coalition nears its 100 days. Cuts are looming, some are here. The Labour leadership contest dwindles toward its September finishing line. And with little guilt some who are lucky enough are heading for the beach.

June 3, 2010 1:41 pm 39 Comments

For the last two years French President Nicolas Sarkozy as been trying to persuade Britain to look again at the idea of combining nuclear deterrence with France.

June 2, 2010 8:36 am 32 Comments

At the height of the MPs expenses scandal, the then Commons Speaker Michael Martin - himself under siege - agreed a meeting with the three main Westminster party leaders.

May 17, 2010 8:58 am 84 Comments

The coalition is a week old and with the benefit of hindsight appears a strangely natural consequence of the long weeks of electoral campaigning we have been through, writes Jon Snow.

May 13, 2010 8:31 am 97 Comments

The wisteria in full bloom, the grass mown, and the Downing Street garden – for so long a neglected and unpretty place – seemed to have been left much improved by its departing tenants. Only a dark parched patch in the middle of a lawn stood testament to the little wendyhouse Fraser and John Brown [...]