VICTORIA MACDONALD | Poor Patricia Hewitt. In a recent survey of just under 100 NHS chief executives, she came out as the least popular health secretary of the past decade, just pipping Frank...
PHILIP JOHNSTON | Are the London Olympics shaping up to be the new Millennium Dome, only more expensive and embarrassing, and this time on a global scale?
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.
