It turns out that breaking up is not so very hard to do. It might have been thought that the prospect of the breaking of Britain, which would be the consequence...
Ed Miliband’s speech to the 2012 Labour Party Conference was doubly significant. His bravura performance – speaking for more than an hour without notes – had a ...
One of the central facts of recent British politics has been the decline of the political party. Fewer people are voting for them; memberships have collapsed; a...
The depth of the spending cuts now being implemented by Whitehall departments and local authorities across the UK is unprecedented in postwar Britain. With heal...
Michael Gove’s retreat on his plan to reform GCSE examinations has provided an object lesson in the perils of political hubris. If the Secretary of State hadn’t...
The extraordinary glimpse into the inner workings of No 10 given in a rare interview by David Cameron’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Oliver Dowden – in which he admit...
David Cameron’s announcement that the Government would legislate to force energy companies to put customers on their lowest tariffs sounded good for a couple of...
Ed Miliband's bravura performance at the Labour Party's Conference - a prodigious feat of memory, to deliver more than an hour's oratory without notes or autocu...