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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
VICTORIA MACDONALD | As Professor Sir Liam Donaldson launched his book on the history of chief medical officers this week, he must have been reflecting on how difficult the job has become.
PETER RIDDELL | Tighten your belts. Anyone working in the public sector should realise that the days of plenty — well, at least, not of starvation — are going to end in a couple of years.
ALAN LEAMAN | Three weeks by the seaside with Britain’s politicians is enough to convince any dispassionate observer that our political parties are all in a sorry state.
PHILIP JOHNSTON | The August silly season that follows a general election is often sillier than most, since newspapers’ appetite for reheated government policy announcements has been more than...
