John Rentoul
John Rentoul is chief political commentator for The Independent on Sunday, and visiting fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, where he teaches contemporary history. Previously he was chief leader writer for The Independent. He has written a biography of Tony Blair, whom he admired more at the end of his time in office than he did at the beginning.
John Rentoul: Over-espresso at Coffee House
It's all getting a bit over-espresso at The Spectator's Coffee House. Fraser Nelson, the magazine's political editor, and James Forsyth, its top blogger, seem to have taken on themselves to run the "lie" word against the Prime Minister and his Cabinet adjutant, Ed Balls.
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John Rentoul: The public is ahead of Brown on cuts
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Labour and Conservatives talk airily about 'difficult choices' and 'fiscal responsibility', but Nick Clegg has a list
John Rentoul: More sneering disloyalty
Friday, 26 June 2009
Paul Routledge, one-time sympathetic biographer of the Prime Minister, is stern today in his Mirror column about the "treachery" of Gordon Brown's predecessor.
John Rentoul: Foreign Secretary slips up
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Regular reader of this blog will know that I have kept up a long attempt to monitor the spread of exaggerated estimates of the death toll in Iraq after the 2003 invasion into the mainstream. My view is that the solid evidence suggests that a cumulative total of between 100,000 and 200,000 have died from the invasion and ensuing violence. Studies purporting to support figures such as 600,000 by 2006 or 1 million by 2007 were flawed
John Rentoul: General Sir Hokey-Cokey
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Quote of yesterday from Anne McElvoy in the London Evening Standard, was her observation on the complaint by General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the Army, that the coalition in Iraq had failed to ensure it had enough troops on the ground, "surging" the numbers when the situation demanded.
John Rentoul: Did Tony Blair decline a peerage?
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Another day, another Guardian correction of an untrue report about Tony Blair.
John Rentoul: Welcome to the small corner
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
A big welcome to a new(ish) blog on the block. It has taken me a little while to catch up with Blair Foundation Watch, because a quick glance every now and then suggested that it was yet another anti-Blair whine-out.
John Rentoul: Blair's cojones
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
James Forsyth at Coffee House is puzzled by a quotation attributed to Tony Blair by Trevor Kavanagh in The Sun yesterday. Apparently the former prime minister "once" said
John Rentoul: Economic recovery won't help Gordon
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
What blogs need is more charts. Such as this one from Anthony Wells, showing the relationship between economic optimism and Labour's standing in the opinion polls. There isn't one.
John Rentoul: Last word on Kitty Ussher
Monday, 22 June 2009
The former Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, who resigned last Wednesday for acting entirely within the rules and the law, was not my favourite Labour MP. However, she gained a nidge* of respect when I heard what happened after she took part in a BBC Radio 5 Live programme a few hours before the Telegraph broke the story of her Capital Gains Tax avoidance that would force her out.
John Rentoul: What role did Alastair Campbell play in the Iraq war?
Monday, 22 June 2009
The Mail today also provides a chance to recycle one of my favourite cartoons that I have never seen. It asks, under the ludicrous heading of "Analysis":
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