Labour
Bad winners
Victory hasn’t stopped the vitriol among the lefties of north London
The Spectator’s notes
Watching the very pleasant Liz Kendall on television this week, I was struck by how extraordinary it is that more…
Peer review
Something needs to be done about the overstuffed House of Lords
Does Labour still not get it?
You wait ages for a Labour leadership contest, then five come along at once. In the past few days, nominations…
Diary
For the first time since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team six years ago, a Test match side…
Can the new Northern Powerhouse supremo make Leeds and Manchester work together?
A doff of my flat cap to Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs economist who has been made a peer,…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, soon got used to the surprise of the Conservatives being returned in the general…
Labour must estrange its awful voters
And so now we have to suffer the epic delusions, temper tantrums and hissy fits of the metro-left. They simply…
Making Labour work
A new leader will have to focus on winning, not sniping
Goulash and whiplash
Ed is a plank. He was always a plank — and now he is in Ibiza being a plank. Plankety–plankety-plank:…
Bond villains
After working for Bill Clinton, the political strategist James Carville said he had changed his mind about where power really…
Miliband’s tablet of stone may cost him my vote
You have the advantage over me. You know the result of the general election, whereas I do not — a…
The disunited kingdom
This was the Scottish election. Where next for the Union now?
The right choice
When election day dawns, it’s worth bearing in mind that two million more people will be going to work than when…
Portrait of the week
Home The British economy grew by 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2015, the slowest quarterly growth for…
Warning: this column may soon be illegal
A couple of weeks back I wrote an article headed: ‘Call me insane, but I’m voting Labour.’ Among the many…
Russell Brand is the future, like it or not
I write at a difficult time. The balls are in the air, but we know not where they will land.…
Miliband country
A ‘progressive alliance’ would be a profound threat to rural life
State of play
How has political theatre fared during the coalition? Not very well, writes Lloyd Evans
Portrait of the week
Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into…
Letters
Enemies within Sir: I thought Matthew Parris was typically incisive in his last column, but perhaps not quite as much…
Cheap shots and uncosted bribes are drowning out vision, wisdom and optimism
The interesting thing about Labour’s pledge to abolish non-dom tax status — a squib designed to trap Tories into expressing…
Portrait of the week
Home Launching the Conservative party manifesto, David Cameron, the party leader, told voters he wanted to ‘turn the good news…
Diary
To the dentist. And for an extraction. I hadn’t had a tooth out in decades. But the twinges when I…
Call me insane, but I’m voting Labour
Quite often when I deliver myself of an opinion to a friend or colleague, the reply will come back: ‘Are…
