Outside the system
Author: Tim Walker
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Mandrake – Out in the Cold
Nigel Farage was conspicuous by his absence among the great and maybe not so good who attended the News Corp boss Lachlan Murdoch’s summer party at Spencer House in London last month.
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Mandrake – Clubbing Together
When the country was in the grip of Brexit fever, and Theresa May was frantically trying to sever all ties with the European Union as soon as possible, Baroness Brenda Hale, then President of the UK Supreme Court, hardly endeared herself to the then Prime Minister when she and her fellow justices decreed that formal…
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Mandrake – Johnson’s Office Job
Apparently seeing the £60 million personal fortune that Tony and Cherie Blair have amassed as a challenge, Carrie Johnson has ordered her husband, Boris, back into the office.
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Mandrake – Tail Wags the Dog
Ed Davey’s decision not to officially involve the Liberal Democrats in the massive anti-far-right march in London at the end of March, organised by the Together Alliance, resulted in the resignation of a prominent member of his party’s old guard – and did nothing to dispel a growing unease about his leadership.
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Mandrake – Where’s ‘Daddy Cool’?
Ed Davey’s decision not to officially involve the Liberal Democrats in the massive anti-far-right march in London at the end of March, organised by the Together Alliance, resulted in the resignation of a prominent member of his party’s old guard – and did nothing to dispel a growing unease about his leadership.
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Mandrake – Stollar’s Tours
A safe distance before Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump’s attack on Iran, MP Tim Farron headed a Liberal Democrat delegation to Israel and the West Bank. He obligingly wrote a piece afterwards for Jewish News which showed all too little compassion for the people of Gaza.
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Mandrake – ‘Old Friends’ and New
Although the focus has inevitably been on Peter Mandelson’s web of influence within the party of government, it also extends to the Conservatives in the shape of former Chancellor George Osborne.
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Mandrake – Open Secret
On a point of order, Martin Clunes will not be the first actor to play Huw Edwards in the forthcoming Channel 5 drama, Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards.
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Mandrake – Vacant Chair
Dimbleby had in the past talked about the monarchy as ‘an irrational system’ and turned down an offer to front the King’s Coronation
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Mandrake – Splitting Heirs
With a piece not so long ago by its star columnist Richard Littlejohn headlined “Please don’t pretend two dads is the new normal”, the Daily Mail has scarcely been at the forefront of the campaign for gay rights. Soon, however, the media empire may find itself leading very much by example.
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Mandrake – Liberal Candidates
Disproportionately represented in the House of Lords before last July’s General Election – when they had just 11 MPs in the Commons – the Liberal Democrats have some making up to do now they have 72 MPs. Leader Ed Davey does not, however, appear spoilt for choice when it comes to finding suitable candidates for…
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Mandrake – Divided Loyalties
As close as Lord Rothermere was to Geordie Greig, his overarching loyalty to the Conservative Party meant that he had no choice but to sack him as Editor of the Daily Mail when he became too strident in his front-page attacks on Boris Johnson during his period as Prime Minister and Tory Leader.
