Who do you think you are kidding Mr Miliband - you're not Michael Portillo in disguise

DAVID Miliband can huff and puff as much as he likes, denying it until his contact lenses pop out, but his carefully placed article in today's The Guardian newspaper WAS a leadership challenge. With Gordon Brown said to be spitting feathers...

Brown makes history - he's become the Internet biggest's political victim

THE agonies destroying Gordon Brown have been given wider circulation than any previous political earthquake in Britain thanks to the Internet. In these exciting political times, the friends - not many - and the foes - too numerous to mention...

Surviving the teargas

I WASN'T prepared, so it was all the more shocking to find myself in the middle of a demonstration broken up by tearegas being lobbed over a concrete barrier on Palestine's West Bank. Yet while I should have been angry, it was yet another insight into...

From the WestBank with love

JUST returned from a week away in Palestine, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. That's why I've not been posting lately. Will put that right on Monday and I'm hoping I can persuade our web editor to publish a photo gallery next week. \...

Watch out, the Browns are about

DOWNING Street won’t stay where, but word has it that Gordon Brown and family are having a bucket and spade holiday in East Anglia this summer. Where could it be – Walberswick, where Chief Whip Geoff Hoon has a pad? Or Wadringfiel, where Harriet Harman...

The future looks bleak for municipal socialism in East Anglia.

NO West Suffolk, no East Suffolk, no Yartoft, no stand alone Ipswich. So the Boundary Committee for England fools us all and opts for a Ipswich & Felixstowe unitary with a Suffolk rural, and lumping Lowestoft in with a massive whole Norfolk unitary....

There are limits

HARKING back to my recent blog or an hour or so ago, I have no hesitation in standing up for Gordon Brown against the harsher name-calling of him to be found on the Internet. The barbed pen of Guido Fawkes, the right wing blogger with the web site http://www.order-order.com ,...

Young Tim's Colchester definition of a successful government

CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and principled opinions are, I hope, the distinguishing hallmark of impartial journalists. They set us apart from posturing politicians for whom everything the Government does is either outstanding or absolutely hopeless, depending...

Bottler and his little list of little lists

GORDON Brown would make an excellent Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner of Japan, when the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado is next revived. You'll recall that Ko-Ko, looking for victims for beheading with the ceremonial sword, assures...