Not even a week has gone by when, last Friday, a handful of hours were enough to send a rush of adrenaline to British politics. The resignation of Economy Minister shadow Alan Johnson, the appearance of Tony Blair in front of the jury of the Committee of Inquiry into the Iraq war, Andy Coulson and the Adda from the role of communications director of the Prime Minister David Cameron, are three facts that deserve attention, both considered separately and in their causal chain at all chronological.
The timing first. Announced just a few days earlier Ed Miliband confidentially, leader of the Labour Party, the departure of Alan Johnson arrives just on the eve of the hearing of Tony Blair. It is very likely that the communication strategy of the Labour party have suggested that sheltering of media attention on the former Prime Minister episode, in order to keep the spotlight on the lower shock within the party.
The same happened with Coulson's resignation, which was rumored for some time. The spin doctors of Prime Minister David Cameron could not do anything better than to formalize the morning of Friday, hoping that the press, focused more on hearing Blair, if they occupy as little as possible.
Also because the issue that concerns him is hot. Behind the many cases of wiretapping celebrities and politicians, in Coulson, as a former director of the tabloid News of the World, must necessarily be aware of, hiding the tentacles of the media's most powerful man in the world, or Rupert Murdoch .
However, among the three events, one that will have consequences in the longer term is not tied to Coulson. Resigning, the former editor of News of the World did breathe a sigh of relief both at the same Murdoch Cameron, relieving the prime minister - at least for the future - talk of the connection between his party and the empire of media, and removing the obstacle of a conflict of interest as big as a house when, in February, the culture minister Jeremy Hunt will have to decide on the legality of the acquisition by British Sky News Corporation, controlled not by chance that Murdoch.
Indeed, while the stubborn claim to have done well to lead Britain into war Tony Blair leaves unpunished and apparently unpunished, the British left, or what was his party, is projected into a future far more uncertain than that triumphantly announced after the selection of Ed Miliband as leader.
Alan Johnson left the stage under the cover of family reasons, related to the divorce from ex-wife and the affair she had with their bodyguard. In fact, the former interior minister Gordon Brown, 60, former postman and trade unionist before entering parliament in three and a half months since his appointment had been able to make it clear that financial markets and its not for him.
Several times in contrast with Miliband on key issues (tuition fees, the taxation of high incomes), had become the protagonist of a series of gaffes, centered on the refrain: I do not understand nothing of economics (although I am the shadow minister ), here are by chance. Not a consequence of fate, in hindsight, but a precise calculation, it was elevated to the role of first lieutenant of the premier in pectore.
Blocked his appointment to Ed Balls, 43, long close to Gordon Brown and supporter of a classic social democratic policy, openly at odds with the plans of spending cuts implemented by the Ministry of Economy George Osborne. Far more serious, Ed Balls - politically controversial but unfailingly brilliant - it was a tough rival And the other (ie Miliband) in the primaries of the party.
In place of Johnson, Balls is gone now, because he could not be otherwise given the size of her figure, after the government reshuffle in the shade. For many of Labour is a relief to know that will be represented by a "bulldog" as he prepared to bite the Tories in the first misstep, in contrast to what was a politically tepid Johnson.
Miliband is found, however, at this point with a dilemma: a competent but ambitious Chancellor of the Exchequer is really better than a lazy but not dangerous for the keeping of leadership? 
The timing first. Announced just a few days earlier Ed Miliband confidentially, leader of the Labour Party, the departure of Alan Johnson arrives just on the eve of the hearing of Tony Blair. It is very likely that the communication strategy of the Labour party have suggested that sheltering of media attention on the former Prime Minister episode, in order to keep the spotlight on the lower shock within the party.
The same happened with Coulson's resignation, which was rumored for some time. The spin doctors of Prime Minister David Cameron could not do anything better than to formalize the morning of Friday, hoping that the press, focused more on hearing Blair, if they occupy as little as possible.
Also because the issue that concerns him is hot. Behind the many cases of wiretapping celebrities and politicians, in Coulson, as a former director of the tabloid News of the World, must necessarily be aware of, hiding the tentacles of the media's most powerful man in the world, or Rupert Murdoch .
However, among the three events, one that will have consequences in the longer term is not tied to Coulson. Resigning, the former editor of News of the World did breathe a sigh of relief both at the same Murdoch Cameron, relieving the prime minister - at least for the future - talk of the connection between his party and the empire of media, and removing the obstacle of a conflict of interest as big as a house when, in February, the culture minister Jeremy Hunt will have to decide on the legality of the acquisition by British Sky News Corporation, controlled not by chance that Murdoch.
Indeed, while the stubborn claim to have done well to lead Britain into war Tony Blair leaves unpunished and apparently unpunished, the British left, or what was his party, is projected into a future far more uncertain than that triumphantly announced after the selection of Ed Miliband as leader.
Alan Johnson left the stage under the cover of family reasons, related to the divorce from ex-wife and the affair she had with their bodyguard. In fact, the former interior minister Gordon Brown, 60, former postman and trade unionist before entering parliament in three and a half months since his appointment had been able to make it clear that financial markets and its not for him.
Several times in contrast with Miliband on key issues (tuition fees, the taxation of high incomes), had become the protagonist of a series of gaffes, centered on the refrain: I do not understand nothing of economics (although I am the shadow minister ), here are by chance. Not a consequence of fate, in hindsight, but a precise calculation, it was elevated to the role of first lieutenant of the premier in pectore.
Blocked his appointment to Ed Balls, 43, long close to Gordon Brown and supporter of a classic social democratic policy, openly at odds with the plans of spending cuts implemented by the Ministry of Economy George Osborne. Far more serious, Ed Balls - politically controversial but unfailingly brilliant - it was a tough rival And the other (ie Miliband) in the primaries of the party.
In place of Johnson, Balls is gone now, because he could not be otherwise given the size of her figure, after the government reshuffle in the shade. For many of Labour is a relief to know that will be represented by a "bulldog" as he prepared to bite the Tories in the first misstep, in contrast to what was a politically tepid Johnson.
Miliband is found, however, at this point with a dilemma: a competent but ambitious Chancellor of the Exchequer is really better than a lazy but not dangerous for the keeping of leadership?
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