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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...
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...