The suspected "mentor" of the Oslo killer Anders Breivik has backed violent videos apparently advocating a "war between Christians and Islamists" and the establishment of "Order 777" it can be disclosed.

A day after his friend, mentor and former leader Paddy Ashdown turned his guns on David Cameron, Nick Clegg has called on all taking part in the Alternative Vote referendum campaign to "treat people like adults". When I spoke to him on the campaign trail he refused to comment on suggestions that the prime minister had broken his promise to keep a low profile in the campaign about changing Britain&...

A brilliant article in Progress by my friend and organisational mentor (he was Chair of Aldershot CLP when I was PPC in 2001) Keith Dibble - - relaunching "Third Place First", the campaign for Labour to rebuild its presence throughout the country

Denise Marsa is The Music Mentor. Her day job would make great fly on the wall reality TV. Here is her pilot teaser to get a network to bite. Slickly produced with some great music as well. Check out her … Continue reading →

Concede and move on. That was always the mantra of Team New Labour when something went wrong.   Interesting then that Douglas Alexander has just delivered an important speech about what has gone wrong for Labour on the economic argument. In it he concedes that his old boss and mentor, Gordon Brown, got it wrong on the politics of the deficit and made it look as if Labour were in denial about ...

The government formation process seems to have reached critical mass and I suspect we’re going to see some interesting developments within the next couple weeks. Here’s where the different groups stand as of now: The Sadrists (40 seats) made a 180 degree turn earlier this week by supporting Maliki’s bid for a second term. Apparently a fatwa from Ayatollah Ha’iri (Moqtada’s mentor) forced...

TONY Blair's mentor Derry Irvine was a "tyrannical genius" who taught the future Prime Minister "how to think" when he started out on his legal career.

I just received word of the passing of VADM Mike Kalleres in Jacksonville.  This is a very sad day for me and for all who called him a friend and mentor.  I served as Mike Kalleres' aide for a year, from September of 1992 to September of 1993, and it was a memorable year for a very young man. Mike Kalleres came to the Military Sealift Command from commanding the Navy's Second F...

This headline caught my eye: Alan Greenspan to Testify on Subprime Lending, Securitization, and GSEs, Wednesday, April 7 Shame he was not grilled a bit more about the Fed's free-money policy that fuelled much of the credit crisis back in the days leading up to the housing bubble. Goodness knows what his old mentor would have made of this charade....

As Pete points out, the longer the bullying story runs the more chance there is that the public sympathise with Brown, as they did over the Jacqui Janes story. Now Ed Balls is playing the sympathy card for his mentor, saying that Brown has been deeply hurt by these false allegations. Whatever next? Damian McBride breaks his retreat in a seminary and says: “Brown’s the loveliest man I&#...