> Grant Lee wrote:
>
>> Edward Miliband is a visiting lecturer in government at Harvard University.
>> [ Ralph Miliband's son I believe.]
>
> Yes. He lived in New York for a while about ten years ago, where he
> was, among other things, an intern at The Nation. Very smart and
> likeable fellow. His brother David sold his soul completely and
> became part of Tony Blair's inner circle. Eddie sold only a piece of
> his, working for a Blairite think tank whose name escapes me, but I
> heard he was fairly troubled by the compromise.
Ed Miliband now works for Gordon Brown, and has done for a few years. He's on leave from his post of Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer while he's at Harvard.
I've heard people who are in a position to know say that he's the smarter and the left-er Miliband brother.
So basically he's doing for Brown what David Miliband did for Blair a few years earlier, before he (David) became Blairite MP for South Shields and then Minister of State for Education (in charge of schools, I think, or, perhaps, "School Standards": he's the one who comes on TV to congratulate the nation's schoolchildren for passing their exams and slags off anyone who suggests that the exams are getting easier).
Chris