What I saw in Glasgow East

Fraser Nelson

The Glasgow East by-election should turn our attention to the failings of the welfare state, how it is producing the idleness and social breakdown that it was designed to prevent.

Et tu, Scott? Bush’s press aide turns on his boss

�I think I may have found a way to make you more popular, Gordon.�

A very English coup — and the end of our national church

On the eve of the General Synod and the Lambeth Conference, Theo Hobson says that the sleeping giant of evangelical and orthodox Anglicanism has been awoken by liberal agitation and Rowan Williams’s failed leadership. The church is damaged beyond repair

Theo Hobson

Brown’s security strategy is the worst of all worlds

It’s draconian, expensive and ineffective, says David Davis. All the evidence shows that the Prime Minister is eroding our civil liberties pointlessly

David Davis

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Arts

A world elsewhere

Henrietta Bredin

Henrietta Bredin visits Oslo's new opera house and finds it impressive, both inside and out

Books

Distinctions and likenesses

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family (by Paul Fisher)

Politics

Glasgow East is Brown’s dirty little secret: a hideous, costly social experiment gone wrong

Fraser Nelson

Glasgow East symbolises — as few other places in Britain can — the fact that the problem Labour faces is not just lack of leadership but lack of mission. What is to be seen in this constituency encapsulates and dramatises Labour’s abject failures to comprehend, let alone tackle, the nature of the poverty which grips our council estates.
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