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Inside the forbidden garden
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 [...]
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A pig flying down Whitehall?
May 10, 2010 8:20 am 78 Comments
We are in a time of omens in which we search for routes through the voters' wisdom in refusing to trust any party to deliver us from the evil of deficits, writes Jon Snow.
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The missing leader
May 4, 2010 6:58 pm 43 Comments
In the absence of a three leader debate on Channel 4, Messrs Clegg, Brown and Cameron pledged to do wide-ranging individual interviews with me for Channel 4 news. Interviews with Mr Clegg and Mr Brown duly took place on the agreed dates.
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The 'bigot' in the electoral mix
April 29, 2010 8:14 am 70 Comments
Jon Snow blogs on the likely fallout of the comments Gordon Brown made about a voter that were recorded
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Our first post-Obama search for leadership
April 27, 2010 8:50 am 45 Comments
Jon Snow blogs on the likelyhood of a hung parliament in next week's general election
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The X Factor's gift to British democracy
April 16, 2010 9:07 am 59 Comments
Jon Snow blogs about how last night's TV leaders debate was a "far better viewing experience" than he had anticipated - and how Nick Clegg gave the most relaxed performance.
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Why the TV leaders' debate is not the British way
April 15, 2010 7:40 am 50 Comments
Jon Snow blogs on how he believes the leaders' debate is cutting voters and journalists' access to the party leaders - and Americanising UK politics.
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Looking behind David Cameron at the manifesto launch
April 14, 2010 8:40 am 21 Comments
Jon Snow blogs on his impressions of the Conservative manifesto launch in Battersea Power Station in South London
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So, do we actually have a credit crisis?
October 7, 2009 1:26 pm 43 Comments
I’ve just done a ‘sit down’ with David Cameron, and met his wife too – tall, elegant, very personable. We all met on the 23rd floor of the Hilton here in Manchester, an eerily deserted place with splendid views across the jumble that is Manchester and the sun kissed Pennines beyond. Talked with Cameron for [...]
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Will the great debate happen, and if so – where?
October 6, 2009 12:51 pm No Comments
There is so little wiggle room. Nothing so defines the current political contest as the contesting measures that have finally aired from both major parties for paying off the debt. A pay freeze on higher public sector pay and and delay in the national age of retirement. It doesn’t really matter now who says it [...]

