John Kampfner
Articles by John Kampfner
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Politics
A welcome difference in the Valleys
- 10 November 2003
The "brilliance of Blairism", according to one minister, lies not in dramatic change but in small improvements in people's daily lives. John Kampfner went out to test the theory
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Tory leadership special - Doomed from the start
- 03 November 2003
Unlike Labour, the Tories democratised their party before they modernised it. So MPs were saddled with a leader they never wanted. By John Kampfner, political editor
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Politics - John Kampfner explains why Blair just won't let up
- 27 October 2003
Blair can change certain working practices - he did so even before his medical drama - but he dare not slow down. If he did, the whole government would grind to a halt
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Why don't they get their act together?
- 20 October 2003
Cook, Hain and Short are all members of what is loosely called the "sensible" left. Alas, they never seem to bury their old differences
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Politics - John Kampfner finds the parties short on ideas
- 13 October 2003
The leadership battles of Labour and the Conservatives might be crucial, but a much longer-lasting struggle is taking place over ideas, and all the parties are floundering
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Politics - John Kampfner sees Blair miss Ceausescu's fate
- 06 October 2003
There was only a tiny chance that Blair could have met a "Ceausescu moment" of public denunciation, but his apparatchiks were not prepared to risk it
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Politics - John Kampfner searches for Blair's fingerprints
- 29 September 2003
The Prime Minister will survive the Hutton inquiry, not because he should, but because it has been thus engineered. He is guilty, but left no fingerprints of his own
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NS Interview - Peter Hain
- 29 September 2003
Labour party conference - In a grand Privy Council office, an old radical talks of a resentful establishment ''coming at you from all directions''. Peter Hain is interviewed
Politics
One man went to war
- 22 September 2003
John Kampfner reveals for the first time the full story of how Blair committed Britain to invade Iraq, despite the doubts of even his closest colleagues
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Politics - John Kampfner sees into Gordon Brown's future
- 15 September 2003
The subtext of the Chancellor's speech to the TUC was that Iraq was Tony Blair's war, nobody else's. Yet it did constitute support and, in these difficult times, that is enough
