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The Labour Party’s biggest beast fell victim to awkward interview syndrome yesterday, as Jeremy Corbyn crashed and burned live on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. It’s been something of a Labour trait to slip up on air in this election – Diane Abbott and Dawn Butler take your bows – but Mr Corbyn was left red […]
May vs Corbyn. Blue vs Red. Strong and Stable vs For the Many… This was a fight that had all the hype but was, in the end, a night to not really remember. Nevertheless, Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May did their very best to give Britain’s got Talent (on the other channel) a run for […]
The ‘weekend wobble’ is a new phrase to leap into our General Election top ten as we go into week 6 of the campaign. For the first time since the snap election was called, the Conservative Party found themselves on the back foot and suddenly that whopping majority everybody’s been forecasting doesn’t look so certain. […]
Panto season is officially here. After the past few weeks of party dress rehearsals, yesterday the theatre came to town and we saw the full cast on stage for the first time since this General Election began. After all the posturing, posing, sloganeering and prevaricating, it was a pivotal day in this campaign. As with […]
In 1977, Nottingham Magistrate’s Court was the scene of a well publicised indecency case revolving around the use of the word b****cks – or to be more specific, its use in the title of the debut album by the Sex Pistols (as in Never Mind The…). Richard Branson, the boss of Virgin Records, hired celebrated […]
For far too many politicians, election time is silly season. Perhaps this is the result of a desire to make a lasting impression on the electorate, or through some delusional belief that indulging in things that other (normal) people do, will endear them. Those who do it well, or at least naturally, probably do connect […]
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There’s a phrase that we have been using ironically as a nation for the past 10 years or so. It started off by appearing on artsy posters and moving swiftly on to mugs and t-shirts before colonising pretty much every printable surface, not only in our nation but across the globe. I am talking about […]
May the Fourth Be With You… Aside from this election being the ‘most important in a generation’ (currently bubbling just inside our top ten of campaign slogans), it is also perhaps the only opportunity in a generation to mesh the race for PM with the mighty Star Wars… So I invite you to pause for […]
Labour Suffer Another Election Interview Fall Just what the Labour party didn’t need at the beginning of week 3 of this election – another big media gaffe! It’s highly possible that the corridors of Labour Party HQ were echoing to the sounds of the Britney Spears classic ‘Oops we did it again!’ yesterday as Diane […]
Parliament signed off ahead of the election yesterday with a final exchange of blows across the House floor. In what was one of the longest Prime Minister’s Questions in memory (58 minutes), Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn squared off for what could be the last time. Both party leaders are on a crusade this election […]
In the absence of any sensational speeches or interviews over the weekend this side of the Channel, it is hard not to defer to our French neighbours for something exciting in the world of politics. The Tories may be dreaming of how many seats they can grab from Labour and the SNP; Labour may be […]
Not two days into this contest and already we have an early front runner for the Most Excruciating Interview of the 2017 General Election! Take a bow MP Dawn Butler (Labour) who delivered a toe-curling performance on Radio 4’s PM programme. Asked by host Eddie Mair what Labour would do about the ‘The City’ she broke […]
Well, here we go again… The first shots have been fired in a new battle for the hearts and minds of the British electorate. In the run up to June 8th, expect a rash of sabre rattling sound bites, dashing one liners and oodles of platitudes that claim to place the electorate’s long term future […]
Every now and again British TV bosses, in the chase for better viewing figures, will stake all on a punt to shake things up. Rarely does it work because, Brits – when it comes to their TV at least – don’t like change. The latest punt is unfolding nightly on ITV at 10pm, where the […]