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David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
November 10, 2015
AFTER months of vague talk about “renegotiating” Britain’s EU membership and a flurry of visits to European capitals by the prime minister and his lieutenants, the moment had come....
David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
The bile spewed at Tony Blair is not just unfair—it is counter-productive
October 29, 2015
FOUR years after its last hearing concluded, six years after it was commissioned and twelve years after the war began, the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s participation in Iraq may...
David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
The Conservatives deserve little sympathy for their defeat on tax credits
October 27, 2015
THE House of Lords, Britain’s upper house, has just voted to stall the government’s planned cuts to tax credits. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies these would have...
David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
The case for ditching the NHS
October 23, 2015
If the taxpayer-funded model is not politically workable, Britain should adopt a social insurance systemTHE NHS is in a mess. Many studies suggest that it is worse than its...
David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
English-only votes set Britain on the path to federalisation—or break-up
October 22, 2015
THE House of Commons has just voted in favour (by 312 MPs to 270) of English votes for English laws (EVEL). Superficially a piece of legislative housekeeping—it became law...
David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
The Scottish National Party’s triumphant hesitancy
October 17, 2015
I MISSED Nicola Sturgeon’s final speech to the Scottish National Party (SNP) conference in Aberdeen today (I was mingling with the junior doctors at their protest in London; of...
David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
What Geoffrey Howe’s career revealed about power—and Thatcherism
October 11, 2015
NOTHING in Geoffrey Howe’s ministerial career became him like leaving it. Browbeaten and humiliated one too many times by Margaret Thatcher, he stepped down as deputy prime minister and—as...
David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
George Osborne’s plan to let boomtowns boom and failing towns fail
October 5, 2015
The chancellor's conference speech contained a theory about how Britain is changing—and what the state should do about itGEORGE OSBORNE has just completed his speech to the Conservative Party...