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…
Stefan Stern
A tale of two stories
The long campaign is becoming a medium-sized one, ahead of the start of the short campaign at the…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
George Osborne’s credibility deficit
“I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.” In office…
