Jon Snow
Whilst the rest of us were yesterday marking that benchmark moment in our democracy when an election is called, the House of Lords was the scene of an awful climax to their Lordships’ expenses scandal. 78-year-old Lord Clarke of Hampstead was being flogged at the yard arm. Hard to know whether to feel sorry or…
Channel 4 News’s FactCheck team will be monitoring political claims thorughout the general election campaign.
Jon Snow
It predated the age of the Prime Ministerial Jag – if my memory serves, it was a Humber Super Snipe. The sense of excitement and anticipation was palpable. Ted Heath was spectacularly unpopular. Harold Wilson had only been out of power for four short years. It was 1974 – my first election as a reporter.…
Gary Gibbon
We’ve the first of three films looking at the main party leaders: a look at Nick Clegg. More blessings have been laid at his feet than for many a Liberal leader. But has he exploited them all? Party critics in the profile feel he hasn’t made the capital he might’ve done out of the expenses…
This is the big dilemma that will decide the election. Spend the shock £5- £10bn undershoot on the deficit, or bank it and pay down the national debt. Darling would spend it all, and Osborne would save it all, right? Wrong. The day that February public borrowing was shown to have reached a record seems…
Nick Clegg may have blown open the key debate on the deficit in this election. In or out of government, he says, he will not back the “economic masochism” of starting fiscal retrenchment this year. This happens to be one of the few areas of clear blue water between Labour and Conservatives going in to…
Jon Snow
Jon Snow writes from Hull as he addresses the issue of bias.
Jon Snow
I am on the road in UK PLC taking the temperature ahead of the impending election. Luton is to be my first stop – I catch the 22.32 train from London’s St Pancras. What a station; what a train! A winter palace contrasted with an elderly cake tin. The cake tin takes off at surprising speed.…
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.