Politics

Diary of a Notting Hill nobody

21st November, 2007

Tamzin's take on the week

The winners of the political year

15th November, 2007

This is the text of the remarks that Matthew d’Ancona, editor of The Spectator, delivered at the Spectator Threadneedle Parliamentarian of the Year awards lunch at Claridge’s Hotel.

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14th November, 2007

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7th November, 2007

Gordon Brown lacks urgency and only picks fights that he knows he can win.

Notting Hill Nobody

7th November, 2007

Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week

Tom DeLay bites back

7th November, 2007

Plain speaking from the former US Republican majority leader

Don’t mention Enoch

7th November, 2007

The politically correct have declared Powell an unperson

Nice work

7th November, 2007

Mark Malloch-Brown, the minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, was the most prestigious recruit to Gordon Brown’s ministry of all the talents. But this appointment might be about to come back and embarrass the Prime Minister with controversy brewing over the former UN deputy secretary-general’s taxpayer funded accommodation.

Politics

31st October, 2007

Cameron enters the immigration debate

Is the smoking ban good for us?

31st October, 2007

Enforced abstention may not lead to fewer heart attacks

The Tories are radical again

31st October, 2007

David Cameron is about to take up the issue that Margaret Thatcher didn’t dare touch and that defeated Tony Blair at the height of his powers: welfare reform. Fraser Nelson explains how the Conservative leader intends to bring the American welfare revolution to this country, challenge Labour on its home turf and make poverty history in Britain.

Notting Hill Nobody

31st October, 2007

Tamzin Lightwater reports on the latest developments in the Cameron camp

A trap for Eurosceptic Tories

24th October, 2007

The Tory Europhobes must be realistic in the debate over the European Treaty.

Notting Hill Nobody

24th October, 2007

Tamzin's take on the week

The ghosts of the past

24th October, 2007

At the Labour party conference in Bournemouth, Tony Blair was airbrushed out of the picture. But this week Blair’s ghost has returned to haunt Gordon Brown with a new biography of the ex-PM, sniping from the disaffected and the evidence of Yates of the Yard on cash for honours. The challenge now for Gordon Brown is to lay out an agenda that allows new Labour to move beyond its past.

Listen to Adam Smith

17th October, 2007

Inheritance tax is one levy that makes good economic sense

Gordon Brown’s EU treaty nightmare

17th October, 2007

In British politics, the Europe question always comes to embody the problems that a Prime Minister faces. So Gordon Brown will fly back from Lisbon with a treaty that emphasises that he is scared of putting things to the country and that he spins just as much as his predecessor ever did. With the ratification process expected to run for six months, Mr. Brown faces prolonged trouble over this document and maybe even his first large scale Labour rebellion. 

Notting Hill Nobody

17th October, 2007

Tamzin Lightwater's take on the week

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17th October, 2007

Stephen Pollard on the Lib Dem leadership race

Notting Hill Nobody

10th October, 2007

Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week