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18 Jan 08
MIKE THATCHER | Decisiveness is not the watchword of Gordon Brown’s government. Whether it’s election announcements, treaty signings or the options for Northern Rock, the prime minister has shown a...
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18 Jan 08
JACKIE ASHLEY | The teenager is an odd creature. It keeps strange hours (it’s nocturnal really), does everything very loudly, from listening to music to speaking on a mobile phone, and has a...
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11 Jan 08
MIKE THATCHER | The prime minister’s New Year message is traditionally an upbeat, forward-looking affair. 2008 was no exception. In urgent need of a comeback-kid vision, Gordon Brown focused on...
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11 Jan 08
ALAN LEAMAN | These have been a bad few months for democracy. Christmas was dominated by grim news from Kenya and Pakistan. Russia and South Africa are also causing concern.
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14 Dec 07
DAVID MEILTON | As we plunge headlong towards 2008 with the government and politics in deep disrepute, do not despair. Gordon Brown, as so often, has the answer.
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7 Dec 07
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | Every morning, we hear, Gordon Brown speaks by telephone to the most important people in his government to discuss tactics. Then at 10am he speaks to them all again.
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30 Nov 07
PETER RIDDELL | Paul Gray’s resignation as Revenue and Customs chair set a constitutional precedent of immense significance for anyone who works in Whitehall.
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23 Nov 07
MELISSA BENN | This week, it was the turn of David Cameron and his front bench to propose radical education reforms to a media with an unquenchable thirst for mud-slinging between a weakened...
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16 Nov 07
PETER WILBY | The last time I occupied this column, election fever was at its height and Gordon Brown was expected to go to the polls within weeks.
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9 Nov 07
DAVID LIPSEY | Modern British politics has been about incomes. If real incomes are rising, so the conventional wisdom goes, then the government will be sitting pretty whatever else it is messing up.
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2 Nov 07
ANN ROSSITER | Is public spending going out of fashion? There is certainly a growing sense at Westminster, particularly among Conservatives, that we might have passed the high-water mark of voters...
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26 Oct 07
HELEN DISNEY | Fat used to be just a feminist issue; these days it has become a national crusade.
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19 Oct 07
PHILIP JOHNSTON | The political landscape in Britain has had more upheavals recently than an earthquake zone.
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12 Oct 07
TONY TRAVERS | The chancellor’s great autumnal pronouncement was, compared with the high drama of recent weeks, something of an also-ran.
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5 Oct 07
PETER HETHERINGTON | People of a certain age remember when housing was the most valued political currency.
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28 Sep 07
PETER RIDDELL | Spot the difference. The autumn conference season is when politicians from the main parties pretend to disagree with each other, but largely say the same things.
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21 Sep 07
PETER WILBY | A run on a major British bank was something I never expected to see in my lifetime.
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14 Sep 07
MELISSA BENN | School’s back. Most of the nation’s pupils barely had time to cover their exercise books or learn their new timetables before Ed Balls, the dynamic young children’s, schools and...
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7 Sep 07
BRENDAN BARBER | Many hard-pressed public servants are facing staged pay awards that fail to keep up with inflation.
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31 Aug 07
VICTORIA MACDONALD | There is no one simple answer to resolving the horror of gun crime.
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17 Aug 07
TONY TRAVERS | Last month’s rail white paper revealed rather more than the government’s medium-term plans for part of the nation’s transport system.
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3 Aug 07
ANN ROSSITER | Andy Burnham’s first speech as chief secretary to the Treasury grabbed the headlines with his promise to slash the number of government targets.
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27 Jul 07
PHILIP JOHNSTON | The House of Commons shut up shop for the summer recess on Thursday after a momentous session that included a change of prime minister, a restructured Cabinet and the almost...
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20 Jul 07
TONY TRAVERS | The communities and local government select committee’s report on refuse collection was a well-timed intervention into a sphere of public policy that continues to concern government.
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13 Jul 07
MELISSA BENN | ‘Voters to get direct say in local spending’ was the eye-catching headline a day after the dynamic new communities secretary announced a package of measures to revive local democracy.
18 Jan 08MIKE THATCHER | Decisiveness is not the watchword of Gordon Brown’s government. Whether it’s election announcements, treaty signings or the options for Northern Rock, the prime minister has shown a...
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