http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sat, 18 May 2013 20:54:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/31/gordon-brown-reconsidered/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/31/gordon-brown-reconsidered/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:03:23 +0000 John Rentoul http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=29540 William Keegan spoke at the Mile End Group at Queen Mary, University of London, last night about his new book, Saving the World? Gordon Brown Reconsidered. (Pictured, centre, with Jon Davis, left and Steve Richards, right.) The title of his book is of course number 871 in my series of Questions To Which The Answer Is [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/31/gordon-brown-reconsidered/feed/ 14 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/24/a-learner-all-his-life/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/24/a-learner-all-his-life/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:45:32 +0000 John Rentoul http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=29380 After Michael Gove praised Andrew Adonis (pictured) with revolting treacliness as one of his two heroes (the other was Theodore Roosevelt), the former minister and author of Education, Education, Education came to talk to the Mile End Group at Queen Mary, University of London last night. Adonis delivered a virtuoso lecture on how to be a [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/24/a-learner-all-his-life/feed/ 10 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/alastair-campbell-i-have-never-been-asked-that-question-before/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/alastair-campbell-i-have-never-been-asked-that-question-before/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:54:11 +0000 John Rentoul http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25564 We had a terrific evening with Alastair Campbell at the Mile End Group at Queen Mary, University of London, yesterday. The video and transcript are here.* The Pepys of New Labour told how he kept a diary in tiny handwriting full of shorthand and abbreviations in exercise books and scraps of paper including the back of a White House menu.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/alastair-campbell-i-have-never-been-asked-that-question-before/feed/ 5 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/02/has-he-got-history-for-you/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/02/has-he-got-history-for-you/#comments Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:52:41 +0000 John Rentoul http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24910 Alastair Campbell is launching the fourth volume of his unexpurgated Diaries at the Mile End Group at Queen Mary, University of London, at 6.30pm on 20 June. He will be “In Conversation With” me, before taking questions. Details of how to apply for tickets are here. The Burden of Power completes the quartet of the complete diaries, [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/02/has-he-got-history-for-you/feed/ 35