Alan Watkins
Alan Watkins is a political commentator with a long and illustrious history. Author of books A Short Walk Down Fleet Street and A Conservative Coup, he won the 2005 Edgar Wallace Award for Fine Writing at the London Press Club awards. He also writes about rugby.
Alan Watkins: Mr Brown's twilight among the elves
Newspaper attacks on the Home Secretary and Labour aides are really aimed at the Prime Minister
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Alan Watkins: Spin cannot change the weather
Sunday, 12 April 2009
There's nothing Gordon Brown can do now that the wind is blowing in the Conservatives' favour
Alan Watkins: Top of the bill, but with the same old act
Sunday, 5 April 2009
The Prime Minister's striking G20 performance will not persuade voters that he has been successful in office
Alan Watkins: Downing Street neighbours fall out
Sunday, 29 March 2009
The Chancellor's differences with the Prime Minister do not augur well for the Government
Alan Watkins: Why stay until evicted, Mr Brown?
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Cabinet ministers are rebellious and may prefer a dignified exit in October to an out-and-out drubbing
Alan Watkins: Voting reform? Too late, Mr Brown
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Labour will not now be saved by changing the electoral system. That opportunity passed in 1997
Alan Watkins: A standing ovation for a fallen man
Sunday, 8 March 2009
The US Congress's rapturous reception of Gordon Brown will not yield a single vote this side of the Atlantic
Alan Watkins: We live in Mrs Thatcher's monument
Sunday, 1 March 2009
The Iron Lady launched an era of selfishness, greed and fraud which her successors have fostered with care
Alan Watkins: Mr Brown will cling on till the bitter end
Sunday, 22 February 2009
Voters on the left are looking to the Liberal Democrats as their faith in the Prime Minister drains away
Alan Watkins: It's MPs who have questions to answer
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Berating bankers fails to discharge the heavy responsibility the Commons bears for this financial crisis
Alan Watkins: 'Golliwog' or 'depression': they're just words
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Carol Thatcher's green room observations and the collapse of Western capitalism are clearly connected
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