Mandrake hears whispers that Anthony Seldon the biographer of Tony Blair is being lined up for a peerage by David Cameron with a view to his becoming a minister under Michael Gove the shadow education secretary.

Headmaster and political writer Anthony Seldon deals with this very point in his Telegraph article today. A generally informative historical assessment, his conclusion is not massively controversial - essentially, he says, Cameron has the opportunity to be like the obscure leaders of Toryism's past, or like the game-changers. Hmmm. Like lots of novelists, Seldon needs to work on his endings.

With a general election no more than nine months away what would David Cameron make of his premiership asks Anthony Seldon.

I have put a piece on tutor2u summarising some findings from Anthony Seldon in an excellent piece for the Independent on Sunday today. The Seldon piece is essential reading for AS students studying the power of the prime minister and the operation of the Executive in British government.

Written over last summer by Professor Anthony Seldon and a mini-army of assistants, Trust is at heart both an optimistic and a pessimistic book. Optimistic because one of Seldon’s arguments is that “trusting and being trustworthy are the sovereign human virtues we need today [and] trust is natural: we were born trusting and the state of

A month or so ago, I wrote a script for a Party Political Broadcast which I thought would make a fairly effective point about the nature of David Cameron’s politics.  The original script is on the link, obviously. (By the way, did I really see Cameron on the Daily Politics using the snowfall today for a

Anthony Seldon in The Daily Telegraph: "[Cameron] has ample opportunity in No 10 to become as nondescript as Balfour or Heath: equally, he could become a leader of the stature of Thatcher or Disraeli."

Is David Cameron embarrassed by Anthony Steen? Incredibly, he blamed Labour for introducing freedom of information laws, before adding: 'I have done nothing criminal. Do you know what it's all about? Jealousy. 'I have got a very, very large house, some people say it looks like Balmoral. . . but it's a merchant's house of the 19th century. It's not particularly attract...

Douglas Groves, one of our prominent members of BUCF and student of European Politics, Society and Economics, gives us an account of the day. On Thursday, February 11th, BUCF had both the honour of meeting David Cameron at Edgbaston Association, and the privilege of attending a Cameron Direct session at Bartley Green School. David Cameron was really

Has Cameron become even more Blairite than Blair? David Cameron’s speech to the Open University yesterday marked another major change in the way that the Conservative leader approaches politics, it showed that he passionately cares about the political landscape, and that he knows how to lead and shape the news agenda (at least until Big Ben