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• John Rentoul: It's all over for our Prime Minister

  Thu Apr 30, 2009
  • So writes John Rentoul in the Independent; and he has a good point. To eliminate Labour's existing majority and create one for themselves would be a huge achievement for the Conservatives, even considering the big poll leads they've had recently. They may well do it. But then again, they may not.

• Polly Toynbee: This bold equality push is just what we needed. In 1997

  Thu Apr 30, 2009
  • I agree with Polly Toynbee, writing in the Guardian the other day about Harriet Harman's Equality Bill.

• John Harris: Our libraries are at risk - just when we need them most

  Thu Apr 2, 2009
  • I'm in sympathy with John Harris, writing in the Guardian today: I too am depressed by the closure of public libraries, and by cuts in budgets.

• Polly Toynbee: Don't blame the public sector for catching the fat cats' virus | Comment is free | The Guardian

  Mon Mar 2, 2009
  • My agreement with Polly is so complete, I'm at a loss for words. She's right.

• Philip Hensher: The BBC is too impartial to suffering - The Independent

  Mon Jan 26, 2009
  • I don't disagree with Philip Hensher, witing in the Independent; my instinct is the same as his, and had I been deciding this, I'd probably have approved the broadcast. It does seem extreme to categorise a broadcast by the Disasters Emergency Committee as being unacceptably political in nature.

• Shaken, not stirred: Quantum of Solace, directed by Marc Forster

  Tue Nov 4, 2008
  • Yes - I think Q needs to give him a super-powered one in the next film.

• Simon Jenkins: This was not the speech of a leader about to be unseated

  Wed Sep 24, 2008
  • I think Simon Jenkins may be right about Brown's unshiftability. I, too, have a feeling he may still make it all the way to 2010. Increasingly, I fear it.

• John Harris: Gordon Brown paid no heed to the radical conversations going on in Manchester this week

  Wed Sep 24, 2008
  • I can only agree with John Harris. He, like me, feels a distinct disappointment after yesterday's speech.

• Patricia Hewitt: Labour's greatest hero is Barbara Castle

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • This is an interesting little tributary of the Labour leadership debate: Patricia Hewitt doesn't say so explicitly, but she obviously agrees with me that what's needed now is a big red wig.

• Jonathan Coe: Sir Alfred Hitchcock - Giant with a taste for bondage

  Mon Sep 8, 2008
  • Jonathan Coe is one of my fave novelists, and I think he's dead right about Hitchcock: his works are very visual and for what it's worth, aural. Sound and vision are at least as important as plot and dialogue.