It’s not only the election campaign that will stop in May: the sneering, the hype and the bluffing will too
“If something cannot go on forever it will stop,” said the American economist Herbert Stein. That is a thought…
Stefan Stern
Pride will come before a fall
Hubris. Such a good word. Outrageous pride that will lead, almost inevitably, to nemesis – punishment and defeat.…
Ed needs to give us a feel-good factor
The leader of the Labour Party showed up on Saturday and gave a good speech. It is worth…
Election debates: empty chair, empty words, empty suit
They still won’t happen, probably. I thought so a year ago and I still think so today. But what…
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
You go bankrupt two ways, a character in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises observes: “Gradually and then suddenly.”…
May 7 2015 – a day of reckoning
If you were young in the 1980s, at school or college, and paying even just a bit of…
What if the Lib Dems have really had it?
Nick Clegg is probably looking forward to the TV election debates with almost as little enthusiasm as David…
George Osborne’s credibility deficit
“I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.” In office…
Don’t paint it black: Politicians may be selling, but people are not buying
Black Wednesday was the biggie – September 16th 1992, the humiliating collapse of Britain’s economic policy. That was…
The signals and the noise: the next election remains wide open
David Cameron is arguably in a worse position than Jesus was on the eve of the crucifixion. Christ…
