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...
View ArticleTory 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...
View ArticleLabour’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,...
View ArticleMigration: 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...
View ArticlePolitical 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHave 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...
View ArticleLong 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...
View ArticleYoung 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,...
View ArticleReligion’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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleHarriet 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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleGeneration 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...
View ArticleT’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...
View ArticleHacked 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleBarking 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...
View ArticleMiliband 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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