Yesterday, unlike ‘Lord’ Mandelson, I saw George Osborne deliver his case for the Tories as the party of ‘Progressive Politics” at centre-left Demos think tank HQ. The hounhymns were confounded. Phil Collins – no, not the former drummer of progressive rock group Genesis but the former speechwriter for failed prog rock singer, Tony (Ugly Rumours) [...]
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An open letter to Gordon Brown, saviour of the world's banks, apart from Iceland, the UK and . . .
March 17, 2009 – 12:52 am
As Gordon and Alastair puff out their chests and iron their M+S Let’s Pretend We’re Businessmen suits (made in Indonesia) to host the G20 Global Summit on the global economy, a letter from Steven Katirai, whose Google search reveals him as a capital markets consultant based in the North East of England, has been doing the rounds [...]
Shriti Vadera. Crazy name, crazy gal. Gordon's most trusted advisor..
January 15, 2009 – 5:03 pm
. . . and that’s the problem. By John J Kelly. The shortcomings of ‘Baroness’ Shriti Vadera, junior Business Minister and one of the principal architects of the Private Finance Initiative, a tsunami-in-waiting for the UK economy have been hidden, largely because the Guardian and others are too scared to have a go at Gordon’s well-connected special [...]