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Choose your least irritating sporting metaphor (or cliché): it’s a marathon not a sprint, it’s a game of two halves and we’re barely 15 minutes in, it’s a Grand National and, having cleared the first open ditch, the contenders are beginning…
Clearly we are living in deflationary times. In 1981 when you wanted to find economists who would criticise government policy 364 of them were on hand to sign a group letter. Last week a repeat performance managed to rustle up only 79…
Has the US government spent too much supporting the businessman and entrepreneur Elon Musk? According to the Los Angeles Times, Musk – the innovative creator of electric cars and solar panels – has received almost $5bn of government subsidy…
Yes: it is time to concede and move on. Inequality doesn’t matter, social democracy is finished, the Conservatives are basically right about everything... and, may I ask, would you consider voting Labour at the next general election? That…
Headphones, earphones, everywhere you look. Pedestrians nearly knocked down as they cross the street without looking to see what’s heading their way. On the bus, tube or train it’s the same – music (or podcast) playing, gadget in front of…
“History is written quickly, and pundits like to make out as if every result was inevitable,” wrote the Spectator’s editor Fraser Nelson on election night. That was one pre-election forecast that has been proved correct. Many now write with…
If I were you, I should expect the unexpected. Which is another way of saying we are still in the dark as to the outcome of the general election on Thursday. I have written here more than once over the past few years that “nobody knows…
Hands up who really thought the coalition would last five years. Not me. Those five remarkable days in May 2010, more exciting than the recent TV drama that was based on them, saw politicians and officials move quickly and cleverly to…
It was not supposed to be like this. Coming in to the general election campaign the Conservatives were said to hold two significant advantages over Labour: perceived competence on economic management, and a more greatly admired leader in…
Realism and responsibility are two of the themes to emerge in Labour’s manifesto, published today. The party wants to be seen as a credible potential government. Fiscal responsibility is at the heart of this, and is described in a strong…
“Decency. Principle. Values.” Can Labour’s election campaign recover from the damaging revelations about the ideas which sustain Ed Miliband? For all the fun to be had holding Miliband’s speaking notes up to the light, nothing embarrassing…
Speed kills. In an election campaign taking place in an ever-faster news cycle, with over-reaction piled on top of over-reaction, it will be hard to separate true facts from dramatic but misleading noise. Opinion polls will be at the heart…
