By Eagle Eye Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 2:38 pm described Andrew Adonis’s book, Education, Education, Education, as “probably the most important political book of the year”. (This poster is no…

In an alternative universe, Emily Thornberry, the country’s second female prime minister, has just unveiled her plan for a Green, Social Europe, with Britain at the heart of it. Still enjoying a

The Eurosceptics' fox has not just been shot, it has been hanged, drawn, quartered and the bits laid out for public view. At last, Tony Blair has achieved something to which he has long aspired,

The thirtieth event of King’s College London’s Strand Group took place at King’s College London on Monday 25th June.

A week is no time at all in politics. Some things take a long time to change, and political parties are among the most resistant. That is the lesson of a new book to be published in January. The

Ed Balls did the Strand last night: not on Strictly Come Dancing, but at the Strand Group of King’s College, London, for the launch of his memoir, Speaking Out. “Ed and I don’t come out well,” he

Public service reform was the subject of yesterday's "Blair Years" course at King's College, London, with special guest Sir Michael Barber, who was head of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit 2001-05. 

“I wanted office not for the title but for the power to move forward progressive goals for the country.” With one sentence Gordon Brown tries to explain his 12-year campaign to undermine Tony Blair.

Gordon Brown’s premiership ended only eight years ago, but it seems longer. Since the dramas recorded in these pages, not only has the opposition taken over government but the Labour Party has been

In an alternative universe, Emily Thornberry, the country’s second female prime minister, has just unveiled her plan for a Green, Social Europe, with Britain at the heart of it. Still enjoying a

John Rentoul reviews Margaret Thatcher, Volume Two: the Iron Lady

This is a somewhat odd book. It is as clear and eloquent as is its author. It is a diary - with commentary - from the beginning of Labour's second term in June 2001 until Robin resigned from the

By John Rentoul Eagle Eye Wednesday, 14 September 2011 at 10:20 pm I guessed last month that the Daily Mail, having bought the serialisation rights to Gordon Corera’s book about the British Secret …

It was a strange year in politics, the extra year in what ought to be a four-year cycle between elections.

Men and women define their sex differently. Whereas half of all men say they are 100 per cent male, only 7 per cent of women say they are 100 per cent female. That is one of the revelations in More

It seemed an astonishing revelation for Michael Howard to make. A little more than a fortnight after he had announced draconian policies on immigration, the Tory leader yesterday admitted his grand-

“Hyperbole” is the most useful word with which to describe James Cronin’s fine book, Global Rules: America, Britain and a Disordered World. Hyperbole is what it lacks, and what a relief that is.

Tam Dalyell, who has died aged 84, was a one-off. He was one of the first MPs I encountered as a young journalist. He was already a legend. He had left his mark on history, the West Lothian question.

The reverse sexists assume that this book is stylishly written only because Alistair Darling's wife, Maggie Vaughan, and Catherine McLeod, his special adviser, helped to write it.

Derek Draper is smart. He said so himself. "The reason that we all get on, to be arrogant about it, is that we're all very clever," he said of the group of thirtysomethings who now govern the

Kate discussed her husband Derek's condition as he continues to lie in a minimally-conscious state, having fought off coronavirus

I am reading Dreyer’s English, the British edition of a book about style by the American Benjamin Dreyer, who is the chief copy editor of Random House. It is boisterously well written and I recommend

One of the most striking things I heard about Tony Blair as I was writing my biography of him was from John Lloyd, a comrade in arms of Blair's in the Hackney South Labour Party and my former editor

Here they come, the stragglers of the New Labour years. Jack Straw, who served in Cabinet for the whole 13 years, published his memoir Last Man Standing (Macmillan, £20), and Alastair Campbell

The Queen is "not supportive" of proportional representation, I reported on Sunday. The revelation came from Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, whose memoir, The Witchfinder General, I had

The Queen was opposed to changing the voting system, according to a Labour peer who breaches protocol to reveal a political opinion expressed in a 20-minute conversation.  Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould