Thursday 23 February 2012

Miliband snipes, Cameron deflects, Bercow bobs

Lloyd Evans

Let’s be honest. I shouldn’t say this but I can’t help it. I’m fed up. The NHS reform process has been dragging on for months, and still there’s no end in sight. Ed Miliband brought it up at PMQs for the third week running. The position remains the same. Miliband loves it. Cameron lives with it.

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Murphy launches Labour's defence review

Peter Hoskin

Remember when Jim Murphy spoke about defence cuts last month? It was not only a smart refinement of Labour's fiscal position, but also a preview for the

Home boys

Andrew Brown

It sounds like a cushy life for a man. On weekdays he potters about at home, running a duster over the surfaces, tinkering with a short story he’s struggling to

When Marty met George

Daniel Finkelstein

I am glad that Scorsese made it. It’s just that, well, I was hoping...

Making the Work Programme work

Martin Bright

Last week David Milband showed some real class when he presented the recommendations from his Commission on Youth Unemployment. This was a sober and intelligent review of

Shelf Life: Tara Palmer-Tompkinson

Fleur Macdonald

As well as being a keen pianist (she practices daily for 90 minutes), Tara Palmer-Tompkinson can also read. In this week's Shelf Life, T P-T tells us exactly what

A silent revival

Peter Hoskin

Whatever happened to silent cinema? Oh, yes, that’s right, it was supplanted by the talkies in the late Twenties and early Thirties, until it suddenly came back to life in