It has to be admitted. Just think of the most recent instance: Tony Blair, after a two-year campaign, was supposed to have the European presidency virtually sewn up. Gordon Brown took his side publicly - and suddenly the Blair candidature is in trouble. Brown really does have the Midas touch in reverse - everything he touches turns to ....

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...but I did not yet know just how much reason to hate him I had. Read and shudder.
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It is not often that you will find me on the same side as the Reverend Ian Paisley (who once screamed "Antichrist!" at the Pope across the European Parliament) or as atheist brutes such as Richard Dawkins and Polly Toynbee; in fact, I do not recall it ever happening before. But every one of us, and many other shades of opinion besides, have been ( Read more... )

As Tony Blair was visiting a neighbourhood this morning, a schoolgirl who looked about fourteen jumped out of the crowd and kissed him right on the lips.

It has taken ten years for me to understand the so-and-so; and (as was to be expected) it was religion that gave me the clue. Tony Blair has just promoted one Ruth Kelly, a universally respected junior minister, who just happens, however, to be a devout Catholic, a member of Opus Dei, and to have managed her last few years' work at the Treasury ( ( Read more... )

The British equivalent of the American Supreme Court and the Italian Constitutional Court is the judicial section of the House of Lords, where sit a number of the most senior judges in the land. A judgement is usually given by a majority of five of them. Today, however, no less than nine - the maximum, I think, allowed by procedure - rendered ( Read more... )