Housing policy or moral crusade?
David Cameron wants to replace “the country’s most run down housing estates,” with “attractive…
Outraged by the Outrage
Here’s how politics now works in the UK. A politician sends out an ill-considered…
Scotland, Please Don’t Go
Never mind the squabbling over sterling and North Sea oil, Scotland. There’s a very…
The Politicians We Deserve?
“Rubbish, rubbish, you’re talking rubbish!” cries the Mayor of the greatest city in the…
Name Calling
David Cameron’s years in public relations weren’t wasted. Whatever one thinks of his government’s…
Me and Mrs T
A former dock worker, 60-ish, ruddy-cheeked, and too big for the bar stool in…
Labour isn’t working (hard enough)
Rising youth unemployment, impending triple-dip recession, falling standards of living, the severely disabled stripped…
Delusions of Empire
All Empires like to think their colonial subjects love them. Which is why the…
Don’t mention the C word
How should we deal with our remnants of Empire? Some (the Falklands, Gibraltar) cling…
The not-so-Big Society
Who’s in charge of Britain these days? I don’t mean who’s in power, or…