{"id":525,"date":"2005-06-09T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/09\/heads-up-for-uk-politics-buffs\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T00:09:00","slug":"heads-up-for-uk-politics-buffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/heads-up-for-uk-politics-buffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads-up for UK politics buffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday get the papers and read the book pages. On Monday, Mark Stuart&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;tag=europhobia09-21&amp;creative=6738&amp;path=ASIN\/1842751263\/qid=1118272296\/sr=8-3\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl\">authorised biography of the late Labour leader John Smith<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=europhobia09-21&amp;amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> is published. I&#8217;ve been skimming through a review copy and there is, shall we say, a lot of somewhat pertinent material on the current state of the Labour party leadership in there. Especially Chapter 21. And 25. From what I&#8217;ve read so far this looks like a must-read, and will undoubtedly spark yet another round of debate over the whole Blair\/Brown thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday get the papers and read the book pages. On Monday, Mark Stuart&#8217;s authorised biography of the late Labour leader John Smith is published. I&#8217;ve been skimming through a review copy and there is, shall we say, a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/heads-up-for-uk-politics-buffs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}