Boris Johnson would walk a general election
The rise of the buffoon was inevitable if we paid any attention to recent trends. Schwarzenegger, Bush, Berlusconi,…
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Free School Meals for All is a success – no wonder Gove opposes it
Michael Gove is often said to be the most ideologically obsessed education secretary ever. He is a man…
Labour needs to get coding
Here are some shocking stats on our skills gap in need of a solid solution – despite being…
Has Salmond lost his touch?
Time was when ‘young Alex’ could do no wrong. His mastery of the media north and south of…
Of course there will be an Olympic Bounce for the Tories – but who cares?
Do you remember it? The gloom? The shattered economy and the incompetent government? It seems so long ago…
Celebrating patriotism : How Labour can learn from Danny Boyle
By embracing a social democratic patriotism, the Olympic opening ceremony has succeeded where Labour MPs have failed. When…
The charges against Cameron and Osborne
The charge sheet against Messrs Cameron and Osborne as the architects of the coalition’s economic strategy is growing,…
It’s All Over Now?
MPs have long been seen as being out of touch but Aidan Burley’s misunderstood tweet decrying the praised-to-the-rooftops…
The new Cold War warms up in Iran
One thing I sometimes forget is that people born before, say, 1980, didn’t really grow up, like I…
Brits increasingly want banks that do things differently
Over the coming weeks thousands of students will open a new bank account – often finding that as…
