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By Guy on February 13, 2012
Globally, the centre-left is enduring a period of public weariness and dissatisfaction. In Australia, a relatively unpopular government battles on against a red-blooded Opposition Leader, with the spectre of a leadership context lingering unerringly in the background. Between Kevin and [...]
Posted in Economics, Europe | Tagged David Miliband, New Statesman, Reassurance Labour |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 21, 2010
Peter Mandelson‘s memoir, The Third Man, was timed for maximum impact, being released just after the British election this year. Mandelson’s musings were condemned as unhelpful by the full gamut of UK Labour figures (including Tony Blair, who was perhaps [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Foreign Elections, Politics | Tagged Book review, British politics, David Miliband, gordon brown, herbert morrison, neo-liberalism, New Labour, Peter Mandelson, the third man, Tony Blair, UK election 2010 |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 10, 2010
The Guardian is reporting that Nick Clegg will announce within 24 hours whether the Liberal Democrats will go into Coalition with the Conservatives or support a minority Tory administration or join a “Progressive Alliance” comprising Labour, the SNP, Plaid Cymru [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections | Tagged Coalition, conservatives, David Cameron, David Miliband, economy, electoral reform, first past the post, GFC, gordon brown, Greece, hung parliament, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, pact, Plaid Cymru, PR, recession, referendum, SNP, Tories, UK election 2010 |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 4, 2010
LBJ used to tell a story about an old Southern Senator who, depressed by the repetitive politics of race baiting and populism, yearns to return to his state one last time to give a “good old Democratic speech”. Today, Gordon [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Politics | Tagged Citizens UK, conservatives, David Miliband, electoral system, fairness, first past the post, gordon brown, ideology, Labour, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, marginal consituencies, New Labour, Peter Mandelson, socialism, Speech, tactical voting, Tories, Tory party, UK election 2010, youtube |
By Kim on March 31, 2009
As I’ve been implying, coverage of the preliminaries of the G20 summit has been distorted through the lens of domestic politics – of the most trivial kind. ABC tv news, tonight, for instance, was obsessed by whether Kevin Rudd’s decision [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Europe, International, Markets, Media, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged abc, Amartya Sen, America, Angela Merkel, barack obama, China, David Miliband, Economics, G20, GFC, global financial crisis, gordon brown, ideology, income inequality, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, London, news, social market, Sociology, sub prime mortgage, summit |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2009
I didn’t see any discussion in the Australian media of a mid-January piece by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in The Guardian, where he argues that the “war on terror” was a most unfortunate phrase, and quite counterproductive. Later, Miliband [...]
Posted in Media, Middle East, Politics, Terrorism, War | Tagged barack obama, British government, David Miliband, Kevin Rudd, rhetoric, Terrorism, UK government, War, war on terror |
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