Magazine – Peter Geoghegan

Will the promise of a new approach bring the same old, same old?

By peterPosted on 18th May 2010Posted in Magazine, PoliticsTagged Brown, Cameron, Clegg, Holyrood, Scotland

Having voted LibDem in the recent UK election, this comment piece for the excellent Holyrood magazine betrays an anger with Clegg and his ‘new politics’ that I think plenty of left-of-centre voters felt in the immediate aftermath of the coalition agreement, and many still feel today. “This is the start of the new politics I […]

Manhattan Transfer: the Jane

By peterPosted on 19th October 2009Posted in Magazine, TravelTagged New York, Peter Geoghegan, The Jane, The List

Last month I checked into the New York hotel that has gone from seamen’s flophouse to celebrity hangout for the List. Here’s my take on it: ‘Hey, can you get me in?’ a woman with a brash New England accent squawks at me as I approach the entrance to the Jane hotel in New York’s […]