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Adonis on UKIP, Clegg and Heathrow
Andrew Adonis has been interviewed by The Times today (pay wall). Full of good stuff, as ever, including:
You deal with UKIP not by abusing its leaders but by tackling the causes of its protest vote: too few good jobs, a crisis of youth inactivity and a weak, remote government with no plans, which can’t get [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 6:03 pm
Labour lost more votes than Tories as UKIP surged
Mark Pack, the excellent Lib Dem blogger, pointed this out yesterday, but it took a while for me to make sense of the figures. He compared the BBC’s Projected National Share of the vote for this week’s local elections with last year’s local elections.*
_________ 2012 2013 Change
Conservative 31% 25% -6
Labour [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 4:23 pm
An open letter to Melanie Phillips
The Daily Mail columnist feels that conservative thinkers are being stifled by a deadening left-wing consensus. I beg to differ…
By C J Schuler | Battle of Ideas, Eagle Eye | Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 1:11 pm
iBet: Swansea may already be on the beach
I tend to make most of my money in the middle part of the season as this time of year can be very unpredictable when it comes to betting on the outcomes of football matches.
By Gareth Purnell | Sport | Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 2:01 am
Leadership, New York Times style
It has slowly dawned on Americans that their system of government has a blocking minority in the Senate, in that a three-fifths majority is needed to overcome a filibuster (talking until time runs out and a bill falls). This has produced a lot of displacement commentary, in the form of criticisms of Barack Obama for [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 3 May 2013 at 10:44 pm
Review of Boss ‘Stasis’ – Season 1, episode 7
This series began with a diagnosis. The nurse who administered it has gone AWOL. So here we greet the penultimate episode with another and this time, despite being purely political, turns up the same result, “If people think you’re dying Tom,” says his advisor Ezra Stone, “you’re as good as dead.”
By Samuel Breen | Arts | Friday, 3 May 2013 at 6:02 pm
MasterChef roundup: The final three do battle
After last week’s semi-finals saw Saira sent home, this week’s triple-decker final has really seen Natalie, Dale and Larkin put through their paces.
By Becca Day-Preston | Arts | Friday, 3 May 2013 at 5:35 pm
On The Road at the Giro d’Italia: I figured he was pretty tired of people congratulating him, so me and Sir Bradley Wiggins just had a chat about the race ahead
Giro d’Italia? What’s that? I hear you say. Well, for anyone who has thumbed past page one in the cycling-for-dummies handbook (no, that does not exist) it is the second most famous race in the world, only beaten by a certain Tour de France.
By Martin Ayres | Sport | Friday, 3 May 2013 at 4:27 pm
Property values at central Crossrail stations
Plus youngsters saving for homes
By Alex Johnson | Property | Friday, 3 May 2013 at 2:16 pm
Local elections: Labour didn’t do enough to win in 2015
What we do not know about yesterday’s local elections is how many UKIP voters will go, or go back, to the Conservatives when they are warned that a vote for Nigel Farage will let Ed Miliband into Downing Street.
But we can say this much. The early BBC estimates for the change in vote share in [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 3 May 2013 at 2:14 pm
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