The polished people of Tonbridge and Malling
THOSE aforementioned people with slinky vests and Colgate smiles over in Tonbridge and Malling, it turns out, are unlikely to be at the Tonbridge and Malling Open Primary [READ ON]
Politics
Chris Philp vs Ed Argar… and the battle for Tonbridge and Malling
LONDON heavyweights Chris Philp and Ed Argar are among the final four on the shortlist in the Tory search for a candidate in Tonbridge and Malling, where Sir John Stanley is [READ ON]
Labour search in Brent Central: Who is supporting who?
THE hare is running in Brent Central as Labour finally move towards picking a parliamentary candidate, a contest that has attracted even more internal interest since Liberal [READ ON]
Builder spots Ed: ‘You’re the one who darked your brother up’
CHUKA Umunna, the shadow trade secretary of whom newspaper columnists say things like “I would, just sayin'”, tagged along with Labour leader Ed Miliband for a [READ ON]
So long Mr Burns… Everybody’s gotta have a dream
WE’VE all gotta have a dream, nothing wrong with having a dream, nothing wrong with that at all. You can’t bag a brother for having a dream. And for Simon Burns MP, [READ ON]
Get Jim White to cover ‘Reshuffle Day’
POLITICAL party reshuffle day seems to have taken on a thrusting new excitement among the politicos with rolling blogs and live feeds running across the internet, as the info [READ ON]
Sunday file 6/10/13: Pickled unions, a ‘schizophrenic sidebar of shame’ and McBride’s Arsenal rant
Posting here on Sunday nights, bits and pieces, tweets and links that didn’t make a full post during the week. * IN case you didn’t see, Rising Damp star Don [READ ON]
The moment Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin binned ‘starvation’ diet joke from speech
TRANSPORT Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, who attacked the “moaning London commentators” opposed to the HS2 rail-link at the Conservative conference this week, [READ ON]
Maria Eagle: HS2 is meaningless… call it something else
LABOUR’S shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle has taken to calling the Camden-flattening HS2 rail link, “the new north south line”. This hoofish [READ ON]
Brighton ’13: Policies? Yes, yes, but who is getting what seat where
PEOPLE think going to conference, when it’s sunny and in Brighton, is just a day out of the office for a hack, an afternoon sitting in front of the Grand Hotel, feeling [READ ON]
