Iran: hunting for golf balls on the Caspian coast
Iran blog: thirty-one years on, Jon Snow recalls the hunt for the elusive Caspian sea golf balls and the day he was “in on a moment of modern history”.
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Iran blog: thirty-one years on, Jon Snow recalls the hunt for the elusive Caspian sea golf balls and the day he was “in on a moment of modern history”.
It’s a well-attended PLP meeting – MPs are struggling to get into the committee room. Gordon Brown is up first. His trio of election strategists – Peter Mandelson, Douglas Alexander and Harriet Harman – then speak. Charles Clarke has gone in to take his medicine.
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Ed Balls insists that he will buy a Labour immigration mug, despite attacks from within the party over its “shameful” message promising controls and restrictions.
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Labour will restore the 50p tax rate if they get back into power, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls announces.
Business Secretary Vince Cable announces plans for a business bank to increase lending to businesses, but shadow Chancellor Ed Balls says it is time for an alternative economic plan to boost growth.
After yesterday’s spectacle of Ed Balls and George Osborne impersonating a pair of male bull seals competing for supremacy on a South Georgia beach, the focus moves back to Lords reform and the vote on Tuesday, writes Gary Gibbon.
In the Commons yesterday, George Osborne looked like a man who couldn’t resist poking Ed Balls in the eye.
A little Twitter spat popped up during Prime Minister’s Questions today between Ed Balls’ right hand man and the Conservative Press Headquarters. Both repeated well-worn mantras from their parties, prompting FactCheck to wonder if there was anything new to note.