Alan Watkins
Alan Watkins: The age of the Silly Party is here. Which is bad news for Gordon's Sensible Party
Published: 08 October 2006
Cameron was unashamed in his passion for the Prime Minister
Alan Watkins: All Mr Blair's difficulties, and those of his party, derive from his failure to be straight
Published: 01 October 2006
'The Sun' told us a giant had been brought down by a tribe of pygmies
Alan Watkins: It's a pity about poor Mr Brown. I'll wager he'll win the crown, but lose the kingdom
Published: 24 September 2006
Lib Dems could hold the balance of power, even with fewer seats. There is some dispute about what Heath offered Thorpe
Alan Watkins: What's dangerous about Mr Blair is that he knows Good and Evil. Or thinks he does
Published: 06 August 2006
Blair has always treated liberty with the deepest suspicion
Alan Watkins: Mr Cameron should expect a summons to the media mogul across the Atlantic
Published: 30 July 2006
Murdoch's papers have almost alone changed the policy on Europe
Alan Watkins: The mood among our legislators is one of shame. They couldn't wait to get away
Published: 23 July 2006
Like most power maniacs, the PM is uninterested in food or drink
Alan Watkins: Mr Blair does not need to have put the money under the mattress to be guilty
Published: 16 July 2006
The conspiracy law is wide- ranging, perhaps too much so
Alan Watkins: Mr Prescott doesn't like a good book. He'd rather spend time with a good bookie
Published: 09 July 2006
Nothing can be allowed to go wrong before Mr Brown ascends
Alan Watkins: Maybe Mr Cameron thinks he can get his way without the crustier Tories noticing
Published: 02 July 2006
For years, the debate on rights was dominated by the herbivores
Alan Watkins: Whatever Brown says, there's more of Blair in him than he would care to admit
Published: 25 June 2006
For now, he may need to appear more Blair-like than Blair
Alan Watkins: The judges, the tabloids and the rule of law: what Blair giveth, Blair taketh away
Published: 18 June 2006
His instinct is to widen the dispute so the cause is lost sight of
Alan Watkins: We know Mr Blair has a date with the setting sun. But doesn't Mr Brown, too?
Published: 11 June 2006
The Chancellor is beginning to look like an unlucky PM
Alan Watkins: The ravening beasts will not be satisfied by another portion of Mr John Prescott
Published: 04 June 2006
His functions were to mollify the brothers and shield Mr Blair
Alan Watkins: If Mr Brown is to prosper, he may have to take the old Stalinist outside to be shot
Published: 28 May 2006
The Chancellor is formidable. But so is Dr Reid in his own way
Alan Watkins: My pub quiz of 2006: in what conditions did the Foreign Secretary become leader?
Published: 21 May 2006
Some view the Promised Land through Brown's computer screen
Alan Watkins: This bloody carvery shows that Mr Blair will not go gently. He is ready for a fight
Published: 14 May 2006
Mr Clarke was not always so appalling as Mr David Blunkett
Alan Watkins: How young Mr Cameron would benefit from the support of an older, wiser man
Published: 09 April 2006
To lose the election, Labour has to lose only 32 constituencies
Alan Watkins: The Prime Minister is being distinctly coy about how the cheques were cashed
Published: 02 April 2006
For a long time the Lib Dems have done well out of peerages
Alan Watkins: Mr Brown is still being flattered, indulged and revered. That will end when he is PM
Published: 26 March 2006
Blair's colleagues are too timid to look for a mouse under a sofa
Alan Watkins: Harold Wilson had an honours list while Mr Blair, it seems, has a laundering list
Published: 19 March 2006
Political history is a strange business. In the past week alone I have read that the late John Profumo was an Etonian; was a member of the Cabinet; was thought to be a possible Tory leader; and brought down the Macmillan government. Every single one of these statements is false.
Alan Watkins: This is worse than the Tories
Published: 12 March 2006
What Campbell used to denounce in the 1990s is tolerated today
Alan Watkins: An all-too innocent Ms Jowell
Published: 05 March 2006
She is perhaps more liked than admired or respected
Alan Watkins: Ha! Just when you thought the Lib Dems had become a complete irrelevance...
Published: 26 February 2006
All is changed from that gloomy time when he met his end
Alan Watkins: Is he joint prime minister? It's the biggest theological argument since the Trinity
Published: 19 February 2006
Blair speaks very fast when the mode of blazing insincerity strikes
Alan Watkins: The Lib Dems may be a lot of plonkers, but they retain the power to humiliate
Published: 12 February 2006
While I was sleeping, David Steel appeared to me in a dream
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