Hints and tips:
...The party’s campaign chief Pat McFadden, a veteran of Tony Blair’s Downing Street, just about managed to let his natural caution triumph over glee at the result....
...He launched his party’s campaign by driving a yellow tractor into a wall of blue-painted hay bales....
...Johnson has told friends he could earn millions in his first year out of office, and his allies believe he could make a comeback once he has, in the words of his ally Lord Jonathan Marland, “put hay in the...
...As for the Labour party, you might think they’d be making political hay over this mess of their opponent’s making, but for now the official opposition remains, as one shadow minister told me at the party...
...The founders signed up Tony Blair as an adviser, giving them an ability to open doors on both sides of the Atlantic that no rival PR firm could match....
...Blair admits that overseeing a franchise of this size brings big pressure....
...Outsourcing gathered pace under Tony Blair’s Labour government in the late 1990s....
...Did you hear Blair’s latest horror? le Carré asked me during our postmortem on the Hay event. The former prime minister had been on Newsnight as the situation in Syria ratcheted up....
...The meadow always has been a managed environment: hay must be harvested and rabbits controlled....
...Branislav Mladic sat erect as he steered a red tractor piled high with hay bales past waiting reporters and into his farmyard on Friday....
...For Tony Blair it was peace in the Middle East, for Gordon Brown an end to boom and bust....
...To secure even a small majority Mr Cameron requires an electoral hurricane as strong as the one that swept Tony Blair in to office in 1997....
...The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, though supportive of the emergency measures, will make political hay....
...But the paper does know where the real problem lies: the Blairs, of course....
...FT: Tony Blair. LB: Long. FT: Mervyn King. LB: Long. FT: Manhattan real estate. LB: Long. FT: Rupert Murdoch. LB: Long. FT: Bear Stearns. LB: Long. FT: Barack Obama. LBL Long....
...Al Gore, the former US presidential hopeful, talks on global warming at the Hay Festival on Monday. The London School of Economics hosts a conference on the same subject on Saturday....
...Conservative leader, David Cameron and Menzies Campbell, leader of the Liberal Democrats, will be out to make hay in the local elections on Thursday, with Tony Blair under pressure after the disastrous...
...David Cameron, the Conservative leader, made hay at the contrast between Mr Blair’s vaulting ambition at the start of his EU presidency and the final budget outcome....
...Anticipating swathes of commuters stranded in the capital Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, cautioned: We don’t want people to rush out of central London.”...
...The Conservatives may be making populist hay now but wait until their policies come under proper scrutiny. Labour will soon start to regain the voters lost since 2001....
...Still, there are votes for adages that Blair should find uplifting: "Unto thine own self be true", "If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again" and "Make hay while the sun shines"....
...Tony Blair is coming to the rescue....
...Straw makes hay on China trip The issue of human rights is expected to dominate the foreign secretary's brief visit to Beijing, according to Whitehall sources....
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