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9 Jun 06
DAVID LIPSEY | The vice-presidency of the United States is famously not worth a bucket of warm spit. So what is the deputy leadership of the Labour Party worth?
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2 Jun 06
VICTORIA MACDONALD | The danger in criticising the state of the National Health Service is to forget where it has come from.
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26 May 06
PHILIP JOHNSTON | Who would be home secretary? Who would want to be? Even though it is considered one of the great offices of state, alongside foreign secretary and the chancellor, it rarely...
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19 May 06
PETER RIDDELL | Tony Blair is busy, busy. The more he is under pressure over his future as prime minister, the more determined he is to show that there is a lot more for him to do in Number 10.
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12 May 06
PETER WILBY | The smart money, even before last year’s general election, was always on a Tory election win in 2009 or 2010.
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5 May 06
COLIN TALBOT | ‘At the Home Office, I worked with some of the cleverest and most dedicated people I have known.’
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28 Apr 06
PHILIP JOHNSTON | The winds of change will soon be blowing through the town halls of England and Wales.
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21 Apr 06
DAVID LIPSEY | Businesspeople don’t like high taxes.
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14 Apr 06
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | The news that the UK Independence party is a magnet for - in David Cameron’s phrase - ‘fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists’ should not come as much of a surprise.
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7 Apr 06
HELEN DISNEY | It is often argued that there is a fundamental difference between public and private sector workers.
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31 Mar 06
NIALL DICKSON | ‘£1bn in the red!’ ‘Thousands of NHS staff to be axed!’
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24 Mar 06
FIONA MILLAR | Whatever happened to the Education Bill? Only a few weeks ago, it was the most challenging issue facing Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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17 Mar 06
PETER HETHERINGTON | In the corner of England where I live, the fragile economy rests on a knife-edge.
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10 Mar 06
PHILIP JOHNSTON | It is almost 20 years since Margaret Thatcher, on the morning of her third election victory in 1987, stood on the staircase of Central Office in London and said: ‘We must do...
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3 Mar 06
PETER WILBY | When I edited the New Statesman, I was rung by a former Labour minister who wished, he said, to write an article on the future of democracy.
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24 Feb 06
TONY TRAVERS | The postcode lottery has become one of the most important concerns of British public policy.
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17 Feb 06
PETER RIDDELL | Every conversation with a minister, senior civil servant or special adviser now turns inevitably - and usually quickly - to the question of what type of prime minister Gordon Brown...
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10 Feb 06
VICTORIA MACDONALD | In court this week, Ann Marie Rogers was fighting her primary care trust’s refusal to fund the breast cancer drug, Herceptin.
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3 Feb 06
DAVID LIPSEY | Tony Blair works on the principle that no policy is worth introducing unless it causes a Labour row.
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27 Jan 06
ALAN LEAMAN | Just occasionally in politics, all is not as it seems.
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20 Jan 06
PETER WILBY | About six years ago, at the end of a long dinner in Edinburgh, I discussed patriotism with Gordon Brown (this being the nearest thing to light-hearted chat that you can get with the...
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13 Jan 06
JACKIE ASHLEY | I have the dubious honour of being the first journalist to be told of the current ‘respect’ initiative.
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6 Jan 06
DAVID LIPSEY | Dodgy hip? Hope you didn’t tuck into the turkey too enthusiastically, else the National Health Service might not fix it for you.
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16 Dec 05
DAVID MEILTON | If you still think of good old Santa as an old fuddy-duddy dressed like a lumpy pillar-box with a tatty beard, prepare yourself for a shock.
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9 Dec 05
PETER HETHERINGTON | Here’s a seasonal teaser to throw into the annual round of Trivial Pursuit, or the other festive games that can enliven an otherwise monotonous family get-together.
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