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The Sunday Times: Buy into Cameron’s co-op
5th November 2007
"Conservative Co-ops?” The woman goggled in amazement. “What, you mean lots of suits in blue rosettes selling beads? I thought the Tories were the party of capitalism!” read more »
The Guardian: Three cheers for freedom and nonconformity!
30th September 2007
A couple of years ago I went down to the Labour conference in Brighton to run a Policy Exchange event. Groping blindly around for a tie in the small hours before setting off, I came up with a rather dashing blue number, bunged it on and headed out. read more »
The Guardian: Don't forget the economy
10th July 2007
At 200,000 words, Iain Duncan Smith's Social Justice Policy Group report will take a long time to digest. But don't tell that to the pundits. read more »
The Guardian: The real victims of cash for honours
1st February 2007
Ruth Turner ... Lord Levy ... and now the prime minister, again. The police investigation into cash for honours may be nearing its climax, or it may run on for weeks. read more »
The Telegraph: With this report, the Tories are ahead on tax
22nd October 2006
The report from Lord Forsyth's Tax Reform Commission will never make the best-seller lists. read more »
The great tax paradox
19th October 2006
David Cameron and George Osborne have been endlessly criticised in recent weeks for not promising tax cuts by a future Conservative government. read more »
Mapping the tribal changes
16th October 2006
Say what you like about New Labour, its devotion to power remains unrelenting. Our prisons may be overflowing, our schools underperforming, our public services demoralised and worn out with irrelevant change. The cabinet may be at each others' throats, the party split and the prime minister limping discredited out of office. And yet the government retains the will to power, and the burning desire to hurt its political enemies. read more »
The self-confidence agenda
27th September 2006
Well, thank goodness that's all sorted out, then. Gordon Brown is not a moralising control freak, but a deep-dyed civil libertarian who fantasises about reducing the power of the executive and restoring the lost checks and balances in our constitution. He is no centraliser, but yearns for government to devolve more power to the people. He is, above all, green to his fingertips. So we learned from his conference speech on Tuesday. read more »
Keeping his distance
12th September 2006
Thanks to Boris Johnson, we now know that the people of Papua New Guinea do not consume each other. read more »
Do you know your APRs from your elbow?
8th August 2006
Truly, there can be few more agile British politicians today than the education secretary, Alan Johnson. read more »