What is the point of Ed Miliband? If you can overlook its bizarre claim that Ed is a ‘political insurgent’, this biography of the Labour leader provides some unwitting insights into the new species of cut-off politician.
Don’t turn Norway into Europe’s 11 September Sections of the European liberal elite are trying to make moral mileage out of this rampage just as shamelessly as the right did with 9/11.
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Murdochphobia is not as radical as you think Whatever you think of Rupert Murdoch (I’m not a fan), you should be concerned that bashing him has become the only political game in town.
Friday 8 July 2011
After the News of the World, who’s safe? The unprecedented harrying to extinction of a tabloid newspaper is likely to have a chilling effect across the British media.
Who’s really afraid of the working classes? Thatcher isn’t to blame for modern-day chav-baiting and anti-working class sentiment. It was fashionable anti-Thatcherites who made a mockery of the lower orders.
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Protests in Greece: the politics of ‘waaah’! The lesson of Athens is that protesters who disavow ideology and embrace spontaneity end up sounding like they’re from another planet.
Who’s really afraid of the working classes? Thatcher isn’t to blame for modern-day chav-baiting. It was fashionable anti-Thatcherites who made a mockery of the lower orders.
The culture war on toffs and chavs Today’s liberal smart set hates the posh and the poor, seeing both as blasts from a best-forgotten past.
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Dave, Maddie and the politics of grief Cameron has been slated for his foray into the Madeleine McCann case, but he's not the only politician who sees opportunity in bereavement.
The rise and rise of a pity-for-Osama lobby The chattering classes’ ‘uncomfortable feeling’ with the killing of bin Laden is underpinned more by moral cowardice than political principle.