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| Tuesday 17 November 2009 |
Election: up for grabs, but nothing to play for
As Gordon Brown launches the General Election campaign, the one certainty seems to be that we won't be offered any political choice.
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| Tuesday 10 November 2009 |
It’s Europe, Dave, but not as we know it
Europe might be back to haunt Cameron’s Tories – but this time things look very different for the EU, Britain, the Tory Party and the rest of us.
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| Wednesday 4 November 2009 |
Who elected these knights to rule parliament?
Grubby elected – and kick-outable – MPs are still more of a democratic choice than squeaky-clean appointed and unaccountable civil servant Sirs.
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| Wednesday 28 October 2009 |
Why do they all want to hijack Churchill?
The ‘would Churchill have supported the BNP?’ furore says more about politics today than it does about the role of ‘our hero’ in history.
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| Wednesday 21 October 2009 |
They couldn’t manage a mail service in a post office
Behind the UK postal dispute is the spectre of privatisation and the authorities’ inability to take responsibility for basic state services.
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| Tuesday 13 October 2009 |
Brighton bomb memories
How the world has changed since I was bizarrely accused of involvement in the IRA attack on the Tory cabinet 25 years ago this week.
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| Wednesday 7 October 2009 |
The Tories have changed – but not for the better
Forget the left’s fantasies about the return of Thatcherism. New Conservatives or New Labour, they are all accountants now.
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| Wednesday 30 September 2009 |
Could this be the worst-ever UK election?
With both New Labour and the Conservatives pale shadows of their former selves, the danger is that politics will be the biggest loser. Unless…
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| Tuesday 22 September 2009 |
Afghanistan: the West has defeated itself
Who needs the Taliban when Obama and the top NATO general both admit that the Western allies do not have a winnable strategy in Afghanistan?
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| Thursday 17 September 2009 |
Why Thatcher defended the Berlin Wall
Secret Kremlin minutes from 1989 reveal that anti-communist Western leaders were privately terrified about the demise of the Soviet bloc.
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| Wednesday 9 September 2009 |
Brown and out in
London and Libya
The Libyan debacle has sunk Labour to depths of absurdity and impotence that even some of us Brown-haters find hard to comprehend.
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| Thursday 3 September 2009 |
Call this a recovery?
Even if UK capitalism avoids a full-scale depression, the danger is that the no/low-growth economy becomes the New Normal.
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| Tuesday 25 August 2009 |
Now it’s the ‘special needs’ relationship
The furore over the release of al-Megrahi shows how the US-UK alliance has lost its sheen since the joint crusade against Libya in the 1980s.
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| Wednesday 19 August 2009 |
Afghan questions: eight years too late
There has been no serious opposition to the West’s disastrous war in Afghanistan since 2001. What’s behind the outburst of questions now?
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| Wednesday 12 August 2009 |
The lingering death of New Labour
The party has no voters, no MPs, no leadership, no principles — but we still have to endure another nine months of it in government.
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| Wednesday 5 August 2009 |
Don’t bank on it, Brown
The notion that the UK banking sector will rescue the economy is as misplaced as the claim that a few bankers were to blame for the crisis.
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| Wednesday 22 July 2009 |
What good’s an election without alternatives?
In the hands of the UK’s non-political parties, the historic crisis of the system is in danger of becoming an historic missed opportunity.
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| Monday 13 July 2009 |
A bad free press is better than the alternative
The overblown media furore about alleged phone-hacking by News of the World reporters reveals the danger of ill-judged moral crusades.
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| Wednesday 8 July 2009 |
Let’s face it: things can get worse
Those who are too afraid to admit the dimensions of the economic crisis even to themselves are unlikely to come up with any new solutions.
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| Wednesday 1 July 2009 |
Brown’s Britain: the Mr Bean of diplomacy?
The irony of the embassy controversy is that the UK has been singled out for attack by the Iranian regime because it lacks influence there today.
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