Can David Cameron unleash his inner Maoism?
Published in The Guardian (June 29th, 2012) The headlines are clear: the nasty party is back in business. After David... Read Full Article
Labour’s cowardice on immigration is sickening
Published in The Independent (June 21st, 2012) Cyrus Kabiru should have been in Edinburgh next week. He has been picked... Read Full Article
Tea Party zombies long to lurch further right
Published in The Independent (May 7th, 2012) A few days before last week’s local elections, the Tory MP Nadine Dorries... Read Full Article
When rulers are out of touch, voters fall for extremists’ snake-oil solutions
Published in The Daily Mail (April 24th, 2012) However you cut it, Sunday’s presidential election in France was a profoundly... Read Full Article
Why conservatives are fair and liberals are weird
Published in The Observer (April 22, 2012) The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by... Read Full Article
The end of privacy in British politics
Published in The Independent on Sunday (April 8th, 2012) Bumping into a trade union leader last week, we got chatting... Read Full Article
The Tea Party Tories
Published in The Guardian (April 5th, 2012) For all his faults, Tony Blair was an acute observer of the political... Read Full Article
Osborne has sent a missile into six years of Tory modernisation
Published in The Guardian (March 21st, 2012) There was much to admire when this heavily leaked budget was finally delivered:... Read Full Article
Forget mansions and lower the 40p tax band
Published in The Financial Times (March 6, 2012) Every successful leader of the postwar age in Britain has understood a... Read Full Article
Why Dave will miss this hawk in hippy’s clothing
Published in the Daily Mail (March 3rd, 2012) Last week in Downing Street there was a seminar on the future... Read Full Article