Blog posts tagged "Politics in crisis"

June 5, 2009 9:01 am No Comments

Crumbs! An act of personal political courage – or of scheming personal political advancement? At this point almost impossible to judge. I don’t know James Purnell well. He was once a pivotal bag carrier, speech writer and muse inside Tony Blair’s Downing Street. Hence a Blairite, almost certainly well aware of, and wary of, Gordon [...]

June 4, 2009 9:04 am No Comments

I always read the comments on Snowblog but rarely have time to respond, but I feel the response to yesterday’s posting and to unfolding events speaks volumes about the qualities that exist in the country beyond the “political classes”. Stuart Tunstead’s wise observations about the constitution and the need for a “separation of powers particularly [...]