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The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
April 14, 2016
JEREMY CORBYN opened his overdue anti-Brexit speech this morning by observing that the venue, Senate House in London, was the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1984....
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
What the Panama papers really reveal about David Cameron
April 10, 2016
PART of the art of politics is crisis management: making embarrassments and other disadvantageous stories go away. But over the past week, David Cameron—whose antennae often seem as sharp...
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
Transcript: Interview with Will Straw
March 31, 2016
MY COLUMN this week looks at the Remain campaign in Britain's EU referendum. The main organisation in it is Britain Stronger in Europe, an umbrella organisation encompassing pro-Europeans from...
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
The cosmopolitan-communitarian divide explains Britain’s EU split
February 29, 2016
PUBLISHED by YouGov yesterday, the above map caught my eye. Using a 80,000-strong panel of voters, the pollsters have ranked 188 of the 206 local authority areas in England,...
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
An interview with Ian Bremmer
February 23, 2016
DAVID CAMERON completed his EU renegotiation just days ago and yet, as some of us predicted, already it is receding into the distance. As the campaign gets underway, the...
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
Boris Johnson is wrong: in the 21st century, sovereignty is always relative
February 21, 2016
TODAY the commentariat, and almost no one else, has been waiting excitedly for Boris Johnson to show his colours in Britain’s upcoming EU referendum. The great moment came at...
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
The Brexit referendum on June 23rd will be all about David Cameron
February 20, 2016
DAVID CAMERON returned home from Brussels last night to mixed reviews. The likes of Nigel Farage were always going to pan his “renegotiation” of Britain’s EU membership (and did...
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
Keep David Cameron’s renegotiation in perspective
February 18, 2016
DAVID CAMERON is in Brussels for the endgame of his great "renegotiation" of Britain's membership of the EU. For over three years this deadline has loomed over the prime...
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
An interview with Sadiq Khan
February 4, 2016
Labour’s candidate for London’s mayoralty discusses his plans for the capitalTHE two incumbents of London’s mayoralty, created in 2000, have both been colourful and independent-minded individuals. Ken Livingstone was...
The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
The “emergency brake” is only symbolic, but it will probably work
February 1, 2016
IT TELLS you a lot about David Cameron’s dinner in London last night with Donald Tusk that the press could not subsequently decide whether it was a coup or...