Confessions of a news junkie
I confess that I have an enormous interest in and appetite for news & current affairs and its alter ego history. So, when I go on holiday (I’ve just spent a week in Uzbekistan), I’m reluctant to cancel the newspapers unless I’m away for longer than a week because I don’t what to feel that I’ve missed anything in the domestic or international political scenes. Of course, this means a big catching-up process as, on my return, I skim all the papers I missed.
What I really regret missing in the last week is the coverage of the Labour Party Conference in Manchester. By all acccounts, Tony Blair’s speech – his last to conference as leader – was an impressive affair. The Gordon Brown speech was always going to be a difficult balancing act, but seemingly he ticked all the boxes. However, someone who was at the conference told me that John Prescott’s speech was the one which moved him most.
This coming week it’s the Tories turn. Whatever his polices (or lack of them), I admire David Cameron for repositioning his party so rapidly and so effectively and he is a really fine speaker.