Hillsborough: Two oranges
Matt Hanley watched the Hillsborough disaster on TV as a nine-year-old Liverpool fan.
LOLBoris and LOLObama
OK, I’m going to make a clear prediction: Barack Obama is gonna win. I should add that, when Gordon Brown was 10 points down in 2010, I predicted he’d...
What’s bigger, “peanuts” or “chicken feed”?
You might think a paper whose £250,000 largesse to Boris Johnson was describes as "chicken feed" would be slow to attack a "peanuts" £245k full-time salary. But that's just...
Cut tax, borrow, then blame women: now the Tories are copying Bush
The reaction from the right to Britain’s spluttering economy has shown an astonishing lack of imagination. First out of the blocks, we see Boris Johnson tell us that we...
Scots pupils face exam in Boris comprehension
Scots teenagers hoping to excel in their Higher English exam have been set a Herculean trial - identifying what Boris Johnson is on about in one of his rambling...
A green ‘Plan B’ – why we need a low-carbon strategy out of recession
By Mark Watts, chair of the Environment session at this weekends Progressive London Conference, former environment adviser to Ken Livingstone From 2000 to 2008 London became recognised for its...
EXCLUSIVE: Labour’s new ad
Yesterday’s debate’s biggest gaffe was undoubtedly David Cameron’s hamfisted ‘Axis of Evil’ speech, citing China (along with Iran) as the reason we need nuclear missiles. “Are we really happy...