As Gordon Brown celebrates the Glenrothes by-election we look back to the party conference in September when pundits thought he might be ousted before the next general election.
Jeremy Paxman talks to Steve Richards of The Independent and Anne McElvoy of the London Evening Standard about the future of the Labour leadership.
Nothing to do with politics? I said my item on Jennings had nothing to do with politics, but I should add that the great irony of Anthony Buckeridge is that he was a life-long socialist, and a pretty left-wing one at that (he had very little time for Tony Blair). Yet few people can have
Death of the original Jennings This is nothing to do with politics at all, but I am sad to report that Dairmaid Jennings, the model for Anthony Buckeridge's famous Jennings stories, has died at the age of 96. One of my proudest scoops as a journalist was to track him down about a dozen years
Heard the one about the stoat and the prawn? I thought Gordon Brown got the slight edge over David Cameron in Wednesday's Queen's Speech debate. But the Conservative leader got an excellent laugh when he pilloried Mr Brown's Government Of All The Talents - the so-called Goats - distinguished outsiders who were brought in as ministers in the Lords
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