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The Scottish National Party’s triumphant hesitancy
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...
The Scottish National Party’s triumphant hesitancy
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...
The Scottish National Party’s triumphant hesitancy
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...