Wednesday 11 January 2012

Why Ed Miliband's PMQs slip-up matters

Peter Hoskin

One of the most persistent assumptions behind Miliband's rule has been that, okay, he may not be the best orator, he may not have rock star charisma, he may have knifed his own brother to get the top job, and so on — but, oh yes, at least he knows his stuff. But today undermines that claim.

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Ed Miliband lives to flop another day

Lloyd Evans

Miliband survives! That news should steady Labour nerves. For today at least. Their leader has the knack of turning near-certain defeat into absolutely-certain catastrophe, but he bumbled through PMQs

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Bruce Anderson

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A year of Spotify Sundays

Peter Hoskin

As the name suggests, our Spotify Sunday posts normally run on a Sunday. But...

The true meaning of Christmas

Rod Liddle

Christmas is all about enjoying the look on the face of a loved one as he or she opens something which you know will fill them with great emotion.

Pigeons, pros and amateurs

David Blackburn

A flurry of new reviews of Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English has landed in recent days, coinciding with a new edition of the book. Kelman’s debut divides opinion. Lewis Jones

An ideal Christmas

Andrew Lambirth

Christmas approaches, and my thoughts turn, with reassuring inevitability, to Dickens. As the nights draw in and the winter winds blast across the fields of East Anglia, the counter-urge is