NICK COMFORT | As fresh horror stories well up daily from the Home Office, John Reid’s plan for his sprawling department to be split into two looks increasingly likely to go ahead.
DAVID LIPSEY | Remember Christmas? No, not last week’s (I hope you had a good one) but the ones when you were a child: an exciting pile of lumpy presents, piled round the tree, while you guessed at...
DAVID MEILTON | I am delighted to be taking over the job of sending out this seasonal message from my old friend Santa Claus, who has been summarily fired.
MELISSA BENN | One of the most confusing sights in modern politics must surely be the repositioning of the Conservatives as the champion of progressive communal values, against an individualist New...
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | It’s extraordinary — apparently there is a whole world out there that feels it doesn’t know enough about the Conservative Party policy on fish.
PETER WILBY | Amid all the speculation about what a Gordon Brown-led government might be like — who will be in, who will be out, what policies will he adopt — one question remains unaddressed.
PETER HETHERINGTON | Around 25 years ago, when trade union power was a force to be reckoned with, the redoubtable miners’ leader, Mick McGahey, rallied comrades at the Scottish TUC with a typically...
PHILIP JOHNSTON | Few beyond the narrow confines of Westminster politics will have heard of Sir Alfred Sherman, and even there mention of his name will probably be greeted with puzzlement.
VICTORIA MACDONALD | As the prime minister sunned himself in the Caribbean and the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, technically remained in charge of government, it was John Reid, the home...
