Gordon Brown has led the traditional motorcade down to Buckingham Palace to officially declare the 2010 election season open. Guy Rundle goes beneath the hype and helicopters.
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Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Game on
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Gordon Brown’s election manifesto
British PM Gordon Brown is set to march down to Buckingham Palace to trigger an election for 6 May with a new Labour manifesto in hand, and the Guardian has a sneak peak: national service, a 16-year-old voting age, and new rights for football fans.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: pocket guide to the British election — part two
OK, so let’s recap the latest in the UK election: 650 seats up for grabs, about 85% in England, Labour currently holding 345, the Tories 193, the Lib-Dems 63, various others 32, Northern Ireland 18. Now what?
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: your cut out ‘n’ keep pocket guide to the UK election
Labour remains by far the largest party, Guy Rundle writes in previewing the UK election. With an absolute majority of around 55 seats even a substantial swing is far from certain to pitch them out of power.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: has the Right lost its freakin’ mind?
Has the Right gone completely bonkers? Not merely the crazy tea-partiers in the US, or the rolling Tony Abbott freakshow in Oz, but now Italy and the UK as well?
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: are these the most passive, fatalistic people on the planet?
Are these the most passive, fatalistic people on the planet? asks Guy Rundle of the British. Maybe it’s because the bad stuff is so ever-present, and the good stuff can often recede from view.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: The last budget of the first (and possibly only) Brown government
Alistair Darling has delivered the last budget of the first Gordon Brown government. There was fiddling with stamp duty, fags and booze taxes and other bits and bobs — but a startling lack of change or reform.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Game on as Labour fights back in the polls
With eight weeks to go before the near-certain UK election date of May 6, there is panic in Tory ranks at the prospect of losing this one. Guy Rundle reports live from the ground.
Wolff: Why David Cameron will be the next PM of Britain
Tories leader David Cameron is the snobbish ex-PR hack who easily calms public tensions. Can he beat the awkward Gordon Brown and bring the conservative upper class back to power? asks Michael Wolff.
How my Gordon Brown prank call became a media scandal
It’s easy to make the news these days. Just call a radio station, pretend that angry British PM Gordon Brown threw a tangerine into a lamination machine at your work and watch the media outlets lap it up. It worked for Robert Popper.
Hair shirts will strangle Labor
Labor pollies are lining up to done the hair-shirt, from Kevin Rudd to John Brumby. But Peter Beattie’s ‘apologise constantly and hope they vote for you anyway’ method doesn’t always work. Stick to your policy guns, says The Oz.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Gordon Brown inhabits dark and deep waters
Gordon Brown is by all accounts socially awkward, outside of a close clan, bad-tempered, suspicious and constantly plotting. In other words, he’s a professional politician, in a position of great strain.
revealed Life inside Number 10 Downing St
An explosive political memoir by chief political commentator of the Observer, Andrew Rawnsley paints British PM Gordon Brown as an indecisive and besieged pollie, battling over whether to call an early election or not.
Guy Rundle: Gordon Brown is tap dancing like an old hoofer
Gordon Brown is desperate to find anything that works. After all, you’ve got to keep moving, listen to criticism, not be put off by it, especially when you’re up against the man putting a new unformed area of flesh on Tory politics.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: no shit Short takes the stand, Brown deflects with voting scam
Gordon Brown’s announcement today that he would try and push through plans for a referendum on constitutional reform has been greeted with light but general derision.
A Christmas Carol for Gordon Brown
On Christmas Eve, Gordon Brown is visited at Downing Street by three spirits and the spectre of Tony Blair. Bah, humbug!
PODCAST: 2010: Politics, elections and anniversaries
In the first of a series, The Economist takes a look at what will be important in politics next year. Elections in the US, Britain and Brazil, and a range of political anniversaries look set to dominate global agenda.
Brown and Sarkozy: What the world needs now is financial regulation
Great Britain PM Gordon Brown and French president Nicolas Sarkozy join forces to pen this mission statement on the need for greater global financial regulation and supervision, foreshadowing Sarkozy’s support for Brown’s new bonus tax.
At least someone is mentioning the war
The continuing British inquiry into the country’s involvement in the Iraq war has already provided some fascinating testimony, despite only scratching the surface of the inquiry’s task.
Gordon Brown: Copenhagen must be a turning point
On the eve of Copenhagen, British PM Gordon Brown has written an op-ed for the Guardian, urging leaders to help create a legally-binding agreement within six months, and hitting out against climate sceptics and the Climategate emails.
“Hello, Rupert? This is Gordon…”
British PM Gordon Brown personally phoned Rupert Murdoch over his paper the Sun’s increasingly hostile criticism of his government.
Brown gets revenge on Murdoch: Sky loses Ashes
Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Sports will lose its exclusive rights to live coverage of The Ashes, in a move insiders say is “revenge” over the Sun’s criticism of PM Gordon Brown.
Why newspapers act like political parties
British PM Gordon Brown has hit out at The Sun newspaper for trying to “become a political party”. Where has Gordon Brown been living all his life? asks Roy Greenslade: newspapers have been acting like political parties for more than a century.
Drugs expert shown the door for disagreeing with government
The UK’s most prominent drugs expert has been kicked off a drugs advisory board for disagreeing with the government’s view that cannabis should be classified as a lethal drug.
