The ingrained instinct of politicians is to consider how any comment affects their career prospects and so Sajid Javid, an ambitious Home Secretary, immediately responded in Daily Mail speak
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Posts Tagged Tony Blair
WISE WORDS IN A DUBLIN PUB “What do you think is the biggest political crisis facing Britain and the rest of Europe at present?” A question put to me by a guy that I found myself chatting to in a Dublin pub while we waited for the
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‘Don’t say that or they’ll know that we were out at the Loch.’ Our innocent, childhood fumblings at getting the story right, following unapproved swimming at Enagh Loch were invariably rumbled. In nearly forty years of teaching, a sensitivity to the truth about unfulfilled tasks and other
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