Like a huge number of people I felt that we had suffered so much from Thatcher and her Favourite Son. Domestically we were discarding the achievements of the Attlee administrations…
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POLITICS AND STARMER
16 October 2024In politics, there are two sorts of issues — those that matter and those that “cut through.” The latter are those which seize the popular imagination and shape perceptions of…
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“This issue of politicians displaying contempt-for-public and contempt-for-Parliament has not gone away. In fact, it is more pressing than ever.”
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PoliticsHome: cock-up or shut up?
16 August 2020PoliticsHome, an online political information site, issues a daily ‘breakfast briefing’ of selected top five stories. But today’s briefing has a black hole. One of the headlines reads: Tory MP…
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The collapse of USA politics
13 January 2018The US House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat has accused Republicans of tampering with a memo about claims of FBI surveillance at the 2016 election. Adam Schiff said Republicans had changed…
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Our Man in London, David Skalinder translates the rise of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to American ears – from the credibility behind his radical “student politics,” to the accident…
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Can you count the number of times that you read CAPITALISM IS DEAD?
11 December 2024I can’t. But it is still with us. And I am not sure that it has changed so much either. What, perhaps, has happened is that it has lost its…
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The historic decision means a second-round runoff that was scheduled for Sunday, when Georgescu would have gone head to head with his centrist rival Elena Lasconi, will no longer take…
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Please let us not be scared of the word. In the 1780s academics in the University of Goettingen were looking for a word to stand for a family of languages…