Both Cruddas and Collins are decentralisers, criticising New Labour for hoarding too much power in Whitehall.

At the Republican convention the nominee was staying in Key Biscayne, but you could not get in the Doral because you might assassinate a Nixonette.[…]I wanted to tell a Nixonette that it was a well-known fact that McGovern is anti-music and his advisors are still trying to decide his stand on the love question … but she’d probably just grin and nod and say “that’s right” in a positively Nixonette manner … and I’d get the grues again.

Mondale's passionate attachment to the issue reflects his thralldom to the policy wonks and wise men of the Washington establishment.

ITV's fatsploitation claptrap The Biggest Loser... and the telly tubbies aren't shedding much weight.