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Europe returns to haunt Cameron

By Josh Hitchens Last week saw yet another victory for those pesky backbench Tories determined to get a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. James Wharton’s private members bill is intended to...

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Tory Grassroots Hold Their Own

Allrik Birch explains why Tory grassroots are  holding their own against Cameron. You might have missed the news that Marta Andreason (formerly of UKIP) and the europhile Richard Ashworth MEPs have...

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Labour’s Dithering Is Eroding Support And Confidence

Ashley Perks suggests Ed Miliband needs to stop eking out policy ideas in dribs and drabs: Britain needs to know the whole deal. Now. Trying to pin down precise Labour Party policy proposals is tricky,...

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Migration: Trickle or Tide?

By Neil Kennard   Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: Freedom of movement for workers shall be secured within the Union. Such freedom of movement shall entail the...

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Political Polarisation: bad news for Ed and Dave, good news for Britain

by Josh Hitchens We’re just over half way through this parliament and a definite shift to both sides of the political spectrum has taken place over the past two and a bit years. On the right we have...

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The Balkanisation Of British Politics

Political parties are becoming regional parties, and are ceasing to have national appeal. Through tribalism and a perceived encroachment of identity politics, parties are finding themselves locked out...

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The Timely Death Of Universalism

The State enforced sense of oneness has had its day.  There has been much ado about universalism this week.  The idea that everyone should benefit from the welfare state is not, however, universally...

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Have You Seen ‘The Plank’, Mr Miliband?

Can the Iron Eds double-act pull off their stunts? The Senior Consultant drew a sharp intake of breath through his generous lips. Junior doctors, nurses, medical students and the prostrate patient held...

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Long term support for the Tories in decline – or is it?

For many years, it has been speculated that the Conservative party, along with the two party state, is in terminal decline. Yet a new Ipsos-Mori poll suggests that, on the contrary, the next generation...

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Young Councillor Talks Tough About Labour…& The Tories.

Britain’s youngest city Councillor, Jake Morrison* urges Labour to take the fight to the Coalition government. We are nearing closer to the General Election in 2015. The public are frustrated, angry,...

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Religion’s role in politics

By Rachel Auld   There is an old saying that the British Labour Party owes more to “Methodism than Marx”. In a secular state, religion and politics are not supposed to mix, but they often do. How bad...

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Why Austerity Is Forever

Rev. Stuart Campbell* insists that austerity suits both major parties and is here to stay. I’m going to do something I only do rarely and write this post in the personal pronoun, because it’s very much...

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Harriet Harman Versus the Murdochracy

Mass media does not threaten democracy. Harriet Harman does. Harriet Harman, the Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, has called for a 15% cap on national media ownership. She is also advocating a compulsory...

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We Want A Viable Democracy: Should We Adopt The American Model?

Alex Patnick argues for an overhaul of our democratic system through a comparison with the American model. In 98 weeks’ time the next general election will be upon us. As we know the precise timing of...

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Generation Y: Truly Thatcher’s Children

 Post-Thatcherite instutionalised individualism may be inspiring Generation Y to support the Tories. You would have thought that in these austere times of budget bashing; the hounding of housing...

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T’up North: UKIP’s New Happy Hunting Ground

Forget the Shires, UKIP have their sites on the towns and cities of Northern England With the exception of Lincolnshire, UKIP have yet to make real headway in Tory areas, which would be odd if you...

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Hacked Off Urge Miller to Act On Press Regulation

The race is on to get a press-regulation royal charter to the Privy Council next Wednesday. Or maybe, two!* Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Maria Miller is caught between a rock and a...

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What next for the working class? Open Discussion

What next for the working class in the Post-Thatcher Consensus? It is a great irony that Margaret Thatcher, to whom the word ‘consensus’ was a slur, has inspired a consensus of sorts herself. The...

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Barking Up The Wrong Proletariat: Britain Isn’t The Place For The “True Left”.

Calum Heaton-Gent argues that the only way for Labour to be accepted…is to become Tories. Twitter is a haven for oddballs. Ranging from celebrities going down the wrong path to the tin-foil hat...

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Miliband calls for a closer relationship with the unions.

Despite the deeper desire of Owen Jones and his ilk, Miliband and McCluskey are on the same wavelength. Ping! An email landed in my inbox earlier this morning from Ed Miliband. What he wanted to do, he...

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