http://www.newstatesman.com/columns/calders-comfort-farm en http://images.newstatesman.com/users/avatars/.jpg http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/ http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/02/andy-burnham-cricket-lizard http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/02/andy-burnham-cricket-lizard Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:13:04 GMT Jonathan Calder If you are planning a long journey with Andy Burnham, take a supply of comics, colouring books and cartons of juice to keep him occupied

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/01/became-grateful-another http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/01/became-grateful-another Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:35 GMT Jonathan Calder When Tony Slattery and Stephen bloody Fry turned up and started mwah-mwahing and calling one another “darling” I became grateful for the jets passing overhead

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]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/12/labour-leading-london-mayor http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/12/labour-leading-london-mayor Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:13:24 GMT Jonathan Calder The rozzers enter Westminster without a warrant, help themselves to the contents of an MP’s office and Labour’s leading London politician complains the Mayor has not been supportive enough

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/11/david-aaronovitch-hoggart-abba http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/11/david-aaronovitch-hoggart-abba Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:55:31 GMT Jonathan Calder The Stiperstone's most famous resident on his love of good music and dislike of David Aaronovitch. Plus the strange story of making Simon Hoggart cry

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]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/education/2008/10/labour-school-life-education http://www.newstatesman.com/education/2008/10/labour-school-life-education Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:14:09 GMT Jonathan Calder Jonathan Calder looks down with bafflement from the top of the Stiperstones at the Labour Party's attitude to education

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/09/transport-minister-labour-film http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/09/transport-minister-labour-film Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:51:19 GMT Jonathan Calder I have been told that Glenda Jackson, an obscure backbencher who was briefly a transport minister, appeared in a film once. It sounds unlikely to me

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/09/darling-telford-penguins http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/09/darling-telford-penguins Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:33:33 GMT Jonathan Calder 'Darling may be miserable, but the trajectory of his career will keep anyone with a long memory laughing through the recession.' Plus paedophiles, penguins and Telford

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