Up the Arsenal? No thanks!

I REFUSE to get excited about Arsenal's Champions League successes and my indifference extends to the final, should they beat Juventus in the quater-final return leg and then win their semi-final games. It was bad enough Liverpool winning matches...

Quit Tony while you're just about ahead

TONY Blair has no-one else to blame but himself for the constant questioning over his future. He might have thought he could stop the speculation by saying 18 months' ago that h'd be off towards the end of Labour's third consecutive term in office,...

Forget the Budget - let's hear it for Paddy

AMID all the excitement and hoo-hah in the Commons yesterday - Gordon's last Budget?, when will Blair go?, how did Cameron do? - it was a small news item from Northern Ireland which caught my eye.   Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown...

A difference of view at the EADT

A HEALTHY democracy needs political parties. But it also needs newspapers whose pages are open to all shades of opinion and are big enough to withstand different thoughts from within their own organisation. Thus on page 10 today...

Sale of the century - peerages for those who can swell our coffers

Roll up, roll up! Who wants a nice piece of ermine? To you, sir, just a million quid - you can afford it sir, it's just a loan sir, but, you understand, it would be much appreciated by Tony if you'd forget you'd sent it to us. That's the idea, write...

Wanted, a recruiting sergeant - regional, of course

ATTENTION!! How's your knowledge of interfacing with holistic marketing networks? Jolly good, off you go to Pewsey in Wiltshire and join the queue to join the support staff for Dr John Reid's Army. On the outbreak of World War I, the British Army produced...

TB should visit the NHS frontline and look at the mess for himself

AS the Prime Minister glibbly repeats that all's well with the NHS, perhaps he should look through today's Press Association tapes if he doesn't believe the evidence being presented to the Commons by MPs. The plight of Suffolk is well chronicled, and...

The Campbells are coming

SCOTLAND'S domination of the body politic in Britain continues unabated with the Lib Dems replacing the Isle of Skye's MP Charles Kennedy with Sir Ming Campbell, who represents the university and golfing town of St Andrews. Soon Gordon Brown - MP for...

Nanny Jowell in trouble

THE big talking point at Westminster this week is the future of Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary who led the Government's backing for the successful 2012 Olypics bid. Mrs Jowell is the very essence of the Blairite nanny state. She is a trusted...