Jon Snow
Our first post-Obama search for leadership
Jon Snow blogs on the likelyhood of a hung parliament in next week’s general election
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Jon Snow
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Sri Lanka's Tamils wait for President Rajapaksa to deliver
General Sarath Fonseka has yet to concede, but it’s pretty clear he’s lost Sri Lanka’s presidential election. The indication is that President Mahinda Rajapaksa won by a substantial margin, although the opposition is crying foul. The general is now holed up in a hotel in Colombo. He has reasons to be fearful.
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Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown has pressed the button
Gordon Brown has pressed the button and changed British electioneering forever. In a statement on the Labour website he’s given the go-ahead for head-to-head debates between the party leaders to start before the campaign proper, to be in a series – maybe three, maybe more and to take place round the country.
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Jon Snow
They talk of radical change. But will it happen?
Gordon Brown talks of radical constitutional change. So does David Cameron. So does Nick Clegg. But is it going to happen? It was the 19th century radical John Bright who conjured the phrase “Mother of Parliaments”. It’s a cosy, reassuring concept and has often been distorted to suggest Westminster is the “Mother of Parliaments”.