Liberal Democrats
Diary
For the first time since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team six years ago, a Test match side…
Highland star
Charles Kennedy remembered
‘Mili-what? Who’s he?’
What opinion polls feel like from the other end of the line
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: you may be about to vote for more than one government
For the last five years, I’ve been trying to get people interested in the Fixed Term Parliaments Act. No, don’t…
Return to the rose garden
The Prime Minister could never admit it, but he’s dreaming of – and scheming for – another coalition
Diary
It’s dangerous, in my line of work, to promise you’ll be anywhere by 8 p.m. I made this mistake recently,…
Osborne’s decisive moment
George Osborne usually tells his aides to prepare for each Budget as if it were his last. This time round,…
The Lib Dems aren’t scared of this election. But they should be
One of the most remarkable features of this parliament has been the sangfroid of the Liberal Democrats. Nothing seems to…
School’s not out
For those who assumed that the removal of Michael Gove as Education Secretary marked the end of the Conservatives’ scholastic…
With one push of a button, political interviews have become interesting again
The other night on Channel 4, I watched the best political interview I’ve seen all year. It was with Nick…
Why are the Lib Dems duffing up the Tories? To ensure another coalition
The last Liberal Democrat conference before the general election has been dominated by denunciations of the ‘nasty’ Tories. Lib Dems…
Unintelligent design
Now that the conference season is over, we can compare not just the party policies, but their logos too. Last…
A bacon bap isn’t Miliband’s problem. We are
That bacon bap earlier this month was not the cause of Ed Miliband’s unpopularity. Ed Miliband’s unpopularity was the cause…
Portrait of the week
Home The government scrabbled together material for the Queen’s Speech, which promised measures to allow money to be put into…
Labour has proved that it speaks for London – and nowhere else
So, now almost all the votes have been counted — except for those in the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets, where…
Nick Clegg’s war
We’ve come to expect strange things from coalition government, but the events of the last few days have been particularly…
Could Jeremy Browne be the anti-Nigel Farage?
Conviction politics is back. The two men making the political weather at the moment, Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage, both…
The coalition is now an open marriage
Without any fanfare or formal announcement, the government has moved into a new phase. ‘We’re not in a coalition now.…
Investment: A plague on our houses
Mansion taxes may be inevitable – and will make us all poorer
Nick Clegg should stick with the devil he knows
I write this in Glasgow, at the Lib Dem conference. Nick Clegg has invented a constitutional doctrine. The doctrine teaches…
This cant about protecting the kiddies is really about protecting the coalition
I have tried very hard to become an afficianado of pornography, seeing as it is by far the most popular…
Ruled by the colonies
Men from the Commonwealth – and they are men – are taking over the British establishment’s positions of power
