“I would love a change of leader, so that Labour could face the truth, correct the mistake,” she says.Warning that Iraq will be “a kind of wound that everyone keeps picking at”, she says: “I think the only way to sort this out, and to face up to the historical record, is for Tony Blair to step aside.”Although the election is expected next May, she points out that it could be delayed until 2006. Yes, the basic premise is the same – artistic skills meet technology – but where you go with it, is entirely up to you. At the other end of the scale, many courses are unlikely to bring a student much beyond the personal fulfilment of knowing how to write a radio play, or more about the history of textiles.Katy Mair, who has just finished a masters of research degree in editing lives and letters at Queen Mary College, London, warns that pursuing a postgraduate course costs time and money, and it needs care to make sure you end up on exactly the right course. “It’s completely different from studying as an undergraduate. You really do need to do your research, find out exactly what the course covers, who teaches on it, and who takes it.

Otherwise you could end up feeling you’ve wasted a year.”An average masters degree costs about £3,500 (double, or more, for students from outside the EU), and since funding councils are now directing awards to PhD students, students without sponsors, or generous parents, usually have to pay their own way. And things will get tougher still after 2009, when undergraduates will be coming out with higher levels of debt.”It will be very interesting to see if this will make people look much more critically at the costs and benefits of postgraduate study,” says Howard Green. credible and capable.” She claims “a very high number” of Labour MPs are “very troubled by all of this”.She describes Mr Blair’s declaration that he wants to serve a full third term as “extraordinary”, doubts that he will achieve it and believes it is still possible that he will be forced out over Iraq before the next election. But, referring to the Iraq war, she says: “It’s just that I think what’s happened is so serious that we need a change, and Gordon sits there as …

Mrs Kennedy, 34, is widely credited with helping her husband shed the chat-show politician image of earlier years and develop greater gravitas as party leader.After taking over the leadership in 1999, Mr Kennedy faced the daunting task of building on the achievements of his predecessor, Paddy Ashdown, who, in his 11 years at the helm, transformed the party from a political also-ran to a movement with 46 MPs at Westminster and a huge increase in local authority representation nationwide. When she was the International Development Secretary, Ms Short was a close ally of Mr Brown. But she insists she was “never a Brownie or a Blairie”.In the interview, she denies being part of any “conspiracy” to oust Mr Blair. It’s a very difficult position.”Her comments will reignite tensions between the Blair and Brown camps, with Blairites suspecting that she has been encouraged to speak out by supporters of the Chancellor. He led the 2001 general election campaign with a verve and skill which confounded those who had criticised him as a political lightweight, and surpassed his predecessor’s achievement by winning 52 Liberal Democrat seats at Westminster. Following a defection and two by-election successes, the party now has 55 seats.Mr Kennedy’s determination to take a more independent and critical line towards the Government than his predecessor crystallised during 2002-03, when he was the only one of the three main party leaders to take an anti-war stance in the approach to conflict in Iraq..

The Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, and his wife, Sarah, announced yesterday that they are expecting their first child. In a statement Mr Kennedy, 44, said: “We have made no secret of the fact that we wanted a family and we are very happy to be able to make this announcement.” No other details were released.Mrs Kennedy’s parents, Peter and Jill Gurling, said: “We share Sarah and Charles’s great happiness over this wonderful news.” Mr Kennedy’s parents, Ian and Mary Kennedy, said: “We know how much this means to both of them ­ it is a marvellous time.”The couple were married in July 2002 in the Crypt Chapel of the House of Commons. “Fairly recently, an eminent director of rugby told a fourth official to eff off – which he promptly did after taking into account the size of the person involved In all seriousness, we have a major issue here. We wrote to Howard Thomas [the chief executive of Premier Rugby] about this last season, and we believe a spirit of partnership is in place. But unless Premiership teams clean up their acts, there is a chance of an incident occurring.”The sport has always prided itself on participants’ unquestioning respect for referees and touch-judges, but the march of technology – slow-motion television replays, the multitude of camera angles and the introduction of big screens in rugby stadiums – inevitably leaves officials open to increased criticism. Second, never lose sight that great ideas come from thinking and researching – sketching and working ideas through on paper is a far superior creativity than jumping straight on a computer.”A computer is just a tool: forget that, and you’re a goner.”. Based in New York, Palmer has worked with a string of well known companies including Pepsi, Levi Strauss and Campbell’s.

“The most recent work of mine that has gone to shelf is the global redesign of the Hellman’s brand,” he says.”Others include Dove, Gillette Venus and Right Guard. I’ve been extremely lucky to have had such diverse client experience.” Palmer’s experience at NSDA is similar to how most degrees in graphic design work. In the first year, the syllabus was fairly broad, covering animation, illustration, photography and typography as well as design In the second and third years, they specialised. For the past three years he has been design director at US company Sterling. This is not an easy line to walk, but fulfiling when it works.Richard Palmer, 29, graduated from the Norwich School of Art and Design (NSAD) in 1997 and was keen to find a way into packaging design. Many of Emery’s clients at the next stage of his career were involved in television.