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To the duck pond the British public can now add the heated stable to the litany of lavish items our hard-earned money has gratefully delivered to our hard-pressed politicians. The two examples are symbolic of a political class so…
Amid a summer of discontent within that most fractious of entities, the British Labour Party, a question of fundamental importance has bubbled beneath the surface. Whilst the grubby distortions over the Syrian vote, and the on-going trauma…
Amid the brouhaha of the Budget, and the drama of Leveson, it would be easy to let other, lesser, news slip you harmlessly by last week. The Financial Times carried a little noted article last Monday on the Labour Party and serially tricky…
Where did it all go wrong? A former journalist, banker and MEP, who only entered the House of Commons in May 2005, within months of his election he was challenging for the Lib Dem leadership on a radical green platform, married with a…
The debate over Britain’s place within the European Union has long threatened to boil over. After six months of repeated postponements, the British people were eventually told that our prime minister wanted to deliver his flagship oration…
The soothsayers’ call of the imminent collapse of the Coalition is a periodical event, almost as regular as night turning into day, which predominates equally on the left as while as the right. Most base their musings on the runes of a…
As I gathered the tinder wood this morning for the heretical Mark Ferguson, premised namely upon his suggestion that conference should be scrapped, I stopped and paused from my task. Why should annual party conference continue ad infinitum?…
After two glorious weeks Britain didn’t just surprise the world but surprised itself. The national trait – deep cynicism – had well and truly taken hold in the years, weeks and days leading up until the 30th Olympiad. The press, public and…
Only in the month of August, in the UK, could a leading political figure that got stuck up a zip wire be an act of burnishing leadership credentials. Of course it helps that the figure was Boris Johnson, a politician seemingly inverse to…
The Thomas Coram Foundation in Bloomsbury was once deeply unpopular with the inner city London residents it was supposed to support. Today Coram, as it is now known, offers early learning help to more than 15,000 of the most vulnerable…
Another day, another government u-turn. The narrative for this political act is so prescient that you can almost hear Labour’s screams of anguish and foresee tomorrow’s incredulous headlines. It has become automatic in the political sphere…
It can’t have been a happy festive and New Year period in the Miliband household. The front page of the Guardian on Boxing Day will have given the prime minister some seasonal cheer, whilst bringing an abrupt halt to the Miliband’s festive…
