Former politics professor Bill Jones, who blogged as Skipper, was less than impressed by the suggestion! The original blog post is here.
Showing posts with label Jeremy Corbyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeremy Corbyn. Show all posts
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Corbyn's leadership predicted on this blog in 2006!
Looking back over some old blog posts today, I came across this gem from 2006. A propos of a discussion of who might succeed Tony Blair and whether Alan Milburn might put up as a challenger to Gordon Brown, the former Reading MP Jane Griffiths appears to predict Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the party.
Former politics professor Bill Jones, who blogged as Skipper, was less than impressed by the suggestion! The original blog post is here.
Former politics professor Bill Jones, who blogged as Skipper, was less than impressed by the suggestion! The original blog post is here.
Saturday, September 19, 2015
It's the end of an era for me - but what about Labour?
Today marks a bit of an end of an era for me as I have filed my last Saturday politics column for The Journal
after 18 and a half years.
The column was launched by my former editor Mark Dickinson shortly after I joined the paper as political editor in 1997, and his successor-but-one Brian Aitken agreed to keep it going after I left the staff in 2004.
I will miss the opportunity to hold forth on the week's political events, but all good things come to an end and I will always be grateful to The Journal for having given me an outlet for my writing for so many years.
Anyway here's the final column, which focuses on the fallout for Labour from Jeremy Corbyn's leadership election victory. The pay-off line is a Journal in-joke, but I am happy to explain it anyone who wants to know.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/news-opinion/maybe-labours-ids-moment-maybe-10085396
The column was launched by my former editor Mark Dickinson shortly after I joined the paper as political editor in 1997, and his successor-but-one Brian Aitken agreed to keep it going after I left the staff in 2004.
I will miss the opportunity to hold forth on the week's political events, but all good things come to an end and I will always be grateful to The Journal for having given me an outlet for my writing for so many years.
Anyway here's the final column, which focuses on the fallout for Labour from Jeremy Corbyn's leadership election victory. The pay-off line is a Journal in-joke, but I am happy to explain it anyone who wants to know.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/news-opinion/maybe-labours-ids-moment-maybe-10085396
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