Campaign 2015 – Tales of the Unexpected
It was not supposed to be like this. Coming in to the general election campaign the Conservatives were…
Stefan Stern
The reality-based community must make a stand
Realism and responsibility are two of the themes to emerge in Labour’s manifesto, published today. The party wants…
Labour must be the party of national recovery
“Decency. Principle. Values.” Can Labour’s election campaign recover from the damaging revelations about the ideas which sustain Ed…
Tory wobbles
Speed kills. In an election campaign taking place in an ever-faster news cycle, with over-reaction piled on top…
How Ed can win that tricky debate
Thursday April 16 is the date for the most curious event in the rather bizarre (non-)debate process. On…
A tale of two stories
The long campaign is becoming a medium-sized one, ahead of the start of the short campaign at the…
Dave should do the job interview if he still wants the job
Groupthink is dangerous. It can lead to disasters like the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, or embarrassments…
An urgent crash course at the university of (political) life
Nine minus three is six. Six is a smaller number than nine. This matters. Here are some more…
Every underdog has his day, and it could be May 7
Judge people by their enemies. Who is most upset at the thought of Ed Miliband becoming prime minister…
There now follows a party political outburst
At a “meet the people” event in a few days’ time Ed Miliband will, quite spontaneously, say this:…
