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Two wrong ideas 26 Aug 2013 | 12:59 pm
I know it’s August but even so, the two ideas from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) I’ve noticed this weekend are remarkably wrong. One is to make it compulsory for people to vote in t...
What David Miranda’s detention might explain to us about civil liberties 20 Aug 2013 | 02:02 am
The Guardian’s rolling story on the arrest of David Miranda at Heathrow yesterday I’m not going to comment on the rights and wrongs of the detention of Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda, though...
The moral and national imperative for aid and development 13 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
I had been planning on having the summer off and not writing anything here till September, in the hope that the happy progress that was made in the early summer would continue and we would head into t...
Earlier, better, in peace: Why when the White’s decision was made is important 18 Jul 2013 | 04:24 pm
White’s Club, St James’s St (Creative Commons image) David Cameron’s spokesman has just said that the Prime Minister has given up his membership of White’s (where his late father had been a member an...
Forty from the Forty 15 Jul 2013 | 01:19 pm
The cover of the 40 from the 40 pamphlet What do Amber Rudd, Mark Spencer and Mary Macleod have in common? They are all members of The Forty, the group of the most marginal Conservative-held seats, ...
Trust consumers to build confidence in banking 12 Jul 2013 | 09:16 pm
In too many areas of British life, there has been a breakdown of trust. Banking is the biggest casualty. But the Banking Reform Bill, which received its third reading in the Commons this week, offers ...
Why wait till it becomes a problem? 11 Jul 2013 | 08:20 pm
It made me giggle during the Labour leadership campaign that Ed Miliband’s offices were in the exact same building as the Cameron Campaign’s had been. Then he launched a bunch of policy groups to look...
2 Big Challenges that Ed Miliband’s speech poses to the Conservative Party 9 Jul 2013 | 02:47 pm
As Ed Miliband knows only too well, most speeches have next to no impact. Today’s speech could be different. One of the biggest challenges facing Westminster villager is to reverse society’s drift awa...
Why didn’t you text, Steve? 5 Jul 2013 | 08:15 pm
I went to Steve Richards’ Rock & Roll Politics show at the Soho Theatre last night, which was pretty fun, assumed a certain knowledge of political figures and facts (which I very much appreciated) and...
Unite against the vested interests 4 Jul 2013 | 03:11 pm
Front page of The Times, 3 July 2013 (image via @suttonnick) Like Robert Halfon, Max Wind-Cowie, David Skelton – and many, many other Conservatives – I think unions are fundamentally a good thing. Th...
