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JulianAstle

  1. @xtophercook see 'more than we bargained for', A Wolf, CentreForum, 2010
  2. The London riots: do we have a political leader capable of rising to the moment? – Telegraph Blogs blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/julianast…
  3. @jamescrabtree @johnmcternan good good. Speak soon.
  4. @jamescrabtree @johnmcternan west side of hackney downs off rectory road. Relative sanctuary.
  5. @jamescrabtree @johnmcternan James, how's your side of the Downs?
  6. @pwatsonmontrose agree!
  7. The Lib Dems deserve ten more ministers – Telegraph Blogs blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/julianast… (28 per cent - halfway btwn seats- and votes-based allocation)
  8. @johnmcternan The charge of double-speak was unfair. I shouldn't have made it. Blog being amended accordingly. Apols. J.
  9. @johnmcternan Accepted. Perhaps ungenerous of me - apols. Though implication of piece was that he was 'decent' but insufficiently 'tough'
  10. If hiring Andy Coulson was Cameron’s worst personnel decision, hiring Ed Llewellyn was his best – Telegraph Blogs blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/julianast…
  11. @resfoundation Of course. julian@julianastle.com
  12. @katierazz more good than bad, but no game changer (to use a phrase from the banned list)
  13. Is this the week the election was lost? – Telegraph Blogs blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/julianast…
  14. @JohnRentoul as opposed to qtw a lot of people believe the A is yes even though it's obviously no. Got it!
  15. Steve Richards: Now we know who runs the country http://ind.pn/nNO39R Saw the headline this am, read the piece tonight. Worth the wait...
  16. @JohnRentoul Because?
  17. Is Nick Clegg trying to destroy the conservative press? – Telegraph Blogs blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/julianast… AQTWTAI?
  18. Phone-hacking scandal shows why Britain needs the Liberal Democrats gu.com/p/3vgg7/tw via @guardian
  19. Away from NotW... It’s do or die for Nick Clegg as he fights to transform an unwilling party - Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/… via @Telegraph