Archive for June 29th, 2007

Home Office job full of challenges for ‘doer’ Smith

Posted at Friday, June 29th, 2007 by andrew

Alan Travis writes in The Guardian: Jacqui Smith made history yesterday by becoming the first female home secretary and the second youngest person to hold the job since Winston Churchill nearly a century ago. … The conventional wisdom at Westminster is that she is not close to Gordon Brown but that he likes her. As [...]

Do you want to be in Lily’s gang?

Posted at Friday, June 29th, 2007 by andrew

Sophie Heawood writes in The Times about the chart-busting sound of London 2007: young, talented and friends with Lily Allen: Something strange is happening in the pop charts. Though midweek positions may have changed by the official chart rundown on Sunday, the top three currently contains a debut single by a 19-year-old singer-songwriter called Kate [...]

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