Blog posts tagged "David Miliband"

November 18, 2009 12:40 pm No Comments

In the 93 years that separate the battle of the Somme from the UK's present engagement in Afghanistan, our tolerance of death on the battlefield has experienced a welcome revolution, blogs Jon Snow.

June 23, 2009 11:07 am No Comments

I had to go down to the Commons yesterday to interview David Miliband. The Foreign Secretary was stranded in his office, held up by the election of the Speaker. I am blessed with a Commons pass – largely so that I can evade the bolt cutters of the Metropolitan police and park my bike on [...]

June 5, 2009 11:15 am No Comments

To answer my own initial question: Purnell has broken from the pack. He has done what David Miliband, conceivably Andy Burnham, and maybe John Hutton (of whom more in a moment), might have done and must have been thinking of doing. Purnell has plunged a knife that has been waiting for such an exercise for [...]