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The ‘socialism’ of Vince Cable: what’s changed? 12 May 2013 | 07:45 pm
SUCH is the magnitude of the event that the definitive account of the financial collapse of September 2008 and its consequences has surely yet to be written. I do not mean by stating that to deride nu...
Nigel Farage: the low rent Enoch Powell 8 May 2013 | 05:23 pm
IT’S something of a love that dare not speak its name. But Powellism has remained a major subtext on the British right for something like half a century, with the rise of UKIP marking only the latest ...
The Spirit of ’45? Yes, but it’s 2013 30 Apr 2013 | 01:14 am
In the context, quoting one of the ghosts of Labour past might not be entirely appropriate. But Tony Blair’s recent ‘comfort zone’ attack on Ed Miliband puts one in mind of the jibe Clement Attlee fam...
Margaret Thatcher: the woman who killed conservatism 15 Apr 2013 | 02:07 am
MARGARET Thatcher stands in the same relationship to the last five leaders of the Conservative Party as James T Kirk does to subsequent captains of USS Enterprise; they represent ideal types against w...
Margaret Thatcher: La Pasionaria of the C2s 11 Apr 2013 | 01:07 am
IF A Trot paper of the type I used to sell in the 1980s had accused Margaret Thatcher of ‘bourgeois triumphalism’, it would have been laughed off the pitch for resort to boilerplate cliché of the wors...
Margaret Thatcher: open thread 8 Apr 2013 | 08:37 pm
‘SAY what you like about Maggie, but …’ was supposedly a taxi driver catchphrase in the 1980s. Now’s your chance to do just that. I’ll write something more reflective later this week. Bookmark It
After Philpott: Labour should make a positive case for welfare 7 Apr 2013 | 10:47 pm
THE greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, as the Kevin Spacey character argues in The Usual Suspects, is convincing the world that he doesn’t exist. Given our government’s success in persuading the el...
Opposing poverty: a job for the left, not the churches 31 Mar 2013 | 09:46 pm
WHEN I give food to the poor, I’m propping up David Cameron’s Big Society programme. When I ask why the poor have no food, I sometimes wonder what I’m doing in the Labour Party any more. Recent weeks ...
Bedroom tax: Labour should follow SNP lead 24 Mar 2013 | 03:51 pm
BRITAIN is about to witness the first co-ordinated attempt by multiple local authorities to obstruct a Westminster edict in almost three decades. Good news, but don’t dust off those ‘defiance not comp...
A brief history of Victorian welfare reform 7 Mar 2013 | 02:17 pm
BACK in the 1830s, the Tories and the forerunners of the Liberal Democrats were of one mind concerning the need for sweeping reform of Britain’s horrendously expensive welfare provision. Not only did ...
