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: Clegg's soft touch will be hard to sustain
The Lib Dem leader's success in the first debate resembles an old-style third-party win in a by-election
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Alan Watkins: Adonis left it too late for a Lib-Lab pact
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Nick Clegg now regards himself as one of the big boys, not as a subordinate partner to Labour
No 10 is for the winner, not the also-ran
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Alan Watkins: The idea that Gordon Brown might stay in Downing Street at the head of the second-largest party is preposterous. In any event, the Labour Party is facing an abyss which make such thoughts irrelevant
Alan Watkins: Mr Darling is the hero of the hour
Sunday, 28 March 2010
The Chancellor is the last piece of the good ship New Labour that is still afloat – just
Alan Watkins: A dog's dinner of an election
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Voters are fed up with Labour, but don't want the Tories either – the leading players are so unimpressive
Alan Watkins: A hung parliament is a red herring
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Just because the winning party has a tiny majority, it doesn't mean it cannot govern
Alan Watkins: Michael Foot – an intellectual prizefighter
Sunday, 7 March 2010
The Labour veteran, who died on Wednesday, seemed bookish, but he was an early television star who relished a skirmish
Alan Watkins: Heath bullied. Thatcher too. But not this PM
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Some incumbents of No 10 really have tormented colleagues. This one is just bad-tempered – and bad at his job
Alan Watkins: Labour's gift for picking the wrong leader
Sunday, 21 February 2010
With many promising politicians to choose from, the best one is passed over – and that was 1976. But history repeats itself...
Alan Watkins: Mr Osborne is the fly in the ointment
Sunday, 14 February 2010
The Conservative Party has history with Kenneth Clarke, but he's the warhorse who would clinch it for Mr Cameron
Alan Watkins: Mr Brown survives the snowflakes
Sunday, 10 January 2010
The conspirators' plot to topple the Prime Minister melted away even before there was a nickname for it
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• Dominic Lawson: Pope Benedict... an apology
I suspect it is Pope Benedict's unpolitical nature that gives him popular appeal
• Mary Dejevsky: Today's opiate for seething masses
The government might ensure that soap operas stay extra-compulsive viewing
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Democracy in action. The voters vote for something and the leaders ignore it
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