Ed Balls – Page 2 – Richard Osley

Sunday file 6/10/13: Pickled unions, a ‘schizophrenic sidebar of shame’ and McBride’s Arsenal rant

October 6, 2013 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

How Michael Foot joked that Nye Bevan could use stammering to his advantage

December 7, 2012 // 0 Comments

LISTEN: Michael Foot recalls Nye Bevan’s stammer at home in Hampstead MOCKED from the government benches for a couple of stumbles in the Autumn Statement debate on [...]

Strictly no dancing

October 17, 2011 // 0 Comments

LABOUR sent three big bods to Camden Town earlier: Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Ken Livingstone. They were talking to businesses in the area and young job seekers. Unusually for [...]

Love on the Heath

June 5, 2011 // 0 Comments

IT turns out married shadow people Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, and Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, first clasped doe eyes on each other while visiting [...]

The expertise of Ed Balls

January 20, 2011 // 0 Comments

THE resignation of Alan Johnson as Labour’s shadow chancellor this afternoon has opened the door for Ed Balls to finally get the job he wanted. We all know he’s [...]

Mrs G Jackson MP

September 29, 2010 // 1 Comment

ON Monday, Hampstead and Kilburn’s MP appeared to be named on the official Labour voting list – published online – as Mrs G. Hodges MP, using her married surname. [...]

Glenda mystery solved: she backed Ed

September 27, 2010 // 1 Comment

Thanks to the Twit/blog world for solving the mystery – in less than an hour – of why the name G. Jackson does not appear on the list of Labour MPs who voted in [...]

A few missing pieces

August 23, 2010 // 1 Comment

YAWNEDY-YAWN. Is it over yet? What could have been an intriguing summer deciding who would lead the Labour Party has descended into a drab, rain-splodged endgame where even [...]

Balls ‘o’ clock

April 27, 2010 // 3 Comments

WE were summoned to Marchmont Street for 9.15 yesterday morning to see Ed Balls speaking live. But as the clock ticked towards 9.20, 9.25 there was no sign of the Education [...]

Islington, the new Camden

April 12, 2010 // 1 Comment

TIME was, Labour ministers spent half their lives at photo opps in Camden. They loved the place. Close to the Commons and, for a lot of them, their homes, the top bods fell [...]