Hanging in the balance
By David Talbot / @_davetalbot Thanks to the government’s new e-petition initiative, any subject with more than 100,000…
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Phone hacking? It’s the economy, stupid
By David Talbot The phone hacking scandal has produced a toxic fallout for the government and for the…
Phone hacking: Cameron must order a public enquiry
By David Talbot / @_davetalbot In January of 2007 the News of the World’s royal editor, Clive Goodman,…
Labour’s poisoned chalice
By Dave Talbot / @_davetalbot Thursday’s YouGov poll for The Sun had headline figures of CON 37%, LAB…
Reviving Ed Milband
By David Talbot / @_davetalbot Surveying his party after its third successive defeat, the Labour leader decided it…
Make no mistake, the Tories plan hegemony
By David Talbot A year on and the Conservatives can scarcely believe their luck. The general election plunged…
Liberté? Egalité? Fraternité?
By David Talbot As of today the Bill ‘Prohibiting Facial Dissimulation in a Public Place’ will forbid French…
Miliband’s doing well, so why don’t we say so?
By David Talbot In recent weeks Ed Miliband has faced a barrage of criticism, not from the public,…
Does Cameron actually know what he’s doing?
By David Talbot In the autumn of 2007, a confident Labour Party met for its conference under the…
An end to ‘Foreign policy as usual’
By David Talbot Not since the Iranian revolution has the Middle East seen anything like this. The demonstrations…
