Archive for james macintyre
Who is Ed Miliband?
Authors of the best accounts of the New Labour years delved deeply into the rival Brownite and Blairite versions of events before coming to their own conclusions. Those who did not frequently ended up with embarrassingly lopsided and inaccurate accounts. Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre, the authors of Ed: The Milibands and the making of [...]
Labour – Lib Dem coalition talks: where James Macintyre gets it wrong
Having seen trailed in advance the research being done for today’s piece on why Labour/Lib Dem talks broke down, I was intrigued as to what James Macintyre would dig up.
But reading his piece, it’s a big disappointment – because it makes a trio of misjudgements, all of which burnish Labour’s reputation.
Let’s take them one by [...]
