Saturday 4 July 2009

 

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Everyone assumes that the Brownites will do all they can, and that is still an awful lot, to stop whoever topples Gordon from succeeding him. So, if you’re one of the non-Miliband possible leadership contenders, then it is in your interest to sit back and wait for someone else to do the dirty work of removing Brown, you can then hope to step into the breach as a unity candidate. 

Brown announces his agricultural policy

I think it's fair to say that the Dear Leader is out of his comfort zone here: Hat-tip: Paul Waugh...

Can Brown's inner circle be broken?

Given the speculation that's whirling around Westminster about plots to oust Brown in the autumn, it's worth noting this passage...

Darling's position of strength

Interviewed in today's Indy, Alistair Darling's "get real" warning to the bankers seems to be grabbing the headlines - but...

Things the Tories shouldn't do

It strikes me as being in both bad taste and politically foolish for Alan Duncan to suggest that Gordon Brown...

Arts

Brutal truth

Brutal truth

Personally, I felt inclined to blame it on the boogie.

Omega  watch

Omega watch

Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913–19
Courtauld Institute, until 20 September

Books

Desolation by the sea

Desolation by the sea

This is How, by M. J. Hoyland

Transcontinental satires

Transcontinental satires

Jerusalem, by Patrick Neate

Style & Travel

In love with Aphrodite Hills

In love with Aphrodite Hills

Kate Newman relaxes in a sophisticated ‘CentreParcs’ on Cyprus

I prefer  Tamil Nadu

I prefer Tamil Nadu

The novelist and Condé Nast supremo on his favourite Indian destination


Spectator Book Club
In this week's issue

To become an extremist, hang around with people you agree with

Cass Sunstein — co-author of the hugely influential Nudge and an adviser to President Obama — unveils his new theory of ‘group polarisation’, and explains why, when like-minded people spend time with each other, their views become not only more confident but more extreme

Cass Sunstein

Who would have thought a herd could moonwalk?

The acclaimed web theorist, Mark Earls, says that the death of Michael Jackson unleashed the extremes of collective action: mass mourning and sick jokes

Mark Earls

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