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The dithering party

Everyone assumes that the Brownites will do all they can, and that is still an awful lot, to stop whoever topples Gordon from succeeding him. So, if you’re one of the non-Miliband possible leadership contenders, then it is in your interest to sit back and wait for someone else to do the dirty work of removing Brown, you can then hope to step into the breach as a unity candidate.

ComRes has Labour within one point of the Tories

The consensus in Westminster is that the Tories are back on the front foot following the PBR and the Damian...

Ken Livingstone: I favour 75 percent tax

Ken Livingstone tonight made two quite remarkable statements tonight at the latest Soundings / Comment is Free debate on ‘Who owns...

Profiting from profit-making

School reform is by some margin the best Conservative policy, but could it be better still? The Independent today runs...

The new crew

Elections have consequences as John McCain likes to say. So it would be unrealistic of us hawks to expect the...

Arts

Enchanted forest

Hänsel und Gretel
Royal Academy of Music

Jenufa
Birmingham Hippodrome

Pelléas et Mélisande
Sadler’s Wells

Sting in its tale

Changeling
15, Nationwide

Books

Stars bright and dim

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey

How to write a wrong

‘When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of Hate, Suspicion and Despair, all the Love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge.’

Style & Travel

Pink and potent

Never gamble your pension on a food fashion.

Stocking- filler fizz

Stuck for stocking-filler ideas and feel like raising an insouciant middle finger to the credit crunch?

Brown has played into the hands of the Tory Bullingdon Boys he loathes

Fraser Nelson says that the Pre-Budget Report killed off New Labour without landing a punch on the Tories. It has paved the way for a new Conservatism, in which Cameron woos aspirational voters, focuses on government debt and looks for responsible spending cuts

Fraser Nelson