A tale of two Gordons: why Gekko is right and Brown is wrong
The Eighties mantra ‘greed is good’ may be unfashionable, says Fraser Nelson, but it is still true. We have forgotten that wealth generates revenue, while high taxes crush prosperity and pauperise nations. Will the Conservatives have the guts to declare this economic truth?
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
The McBride affair is a portent of the coming struggle for Labour’s soul
Fraser Nelson says that the planned dirty tricks operation against the Tories has triggered an internal battle between a hard core of brutal factionalists and union officials around Brown and those who do not want to see the New Labour project vanquished by bully boys
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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Our poll shows that the public is way ahead of Cameron in seeing the need for cuts
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
They wish we all could be Californian: the new Tory plan
Fraser Nelson says that the Conservatives are taking their cue from the West Coast of America: the land of Google, Stanford University and venture capital. They want to rebuild Britain in California’s image: dynamic, high-tech, green and ‘family-friendly’
Extended web version: ‘We need to be ready for two years of recession’
An extended version of Fraser Nelson's interview with Alan Johnson
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Fraser Nelson launches the Spectator's inquiry into the causes of the recession
‘We need to be ready for two years of recession’
Alistair Darling says economic growth will return this year. But Alan Johnson, the normally chirpy Health Secretary, tells Fraser Nelson that Britain needs to brace itself
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
The disgrace of the Lords is a parable for the end of New Labour
Fraser Nelson says that the ‘cash for amendments’ scandal dramatises the accelerating decay of the Brown regime — economic, political, constitutional. A saga that began in 1997 with grand promises of reform is entering its last bleak phase
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Fraser Nelson discusses the week in politics
‘I read about my promotion in the Sun’
Fraser Nelson meets the new shadow home secretary Chris Grayling: renowned for his pursuit of news stories, he would be a powerful figure under Prime Minister Cameron
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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Fraser Nelson looks back on the year in politics
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
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
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