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Why MPs can’t switch off this summer
There are few quicker ways to annoy an MP than to suggest that they are on holiday when the House…
Urban foxes, the ginger menace
Forget about the countryside. When is the government going to do something about the vulpine creatures wreaking havoc in central…
Portrait of the week
Home A Bill to enable a referendum on whether voters wanted Britain to ‘remain’ in the European Union figured in…
The SNP land grab
Are estate owners to be nationalised?
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, soon got used to the surprise of the Conservatives being returned in the general…
Diary
For the 2005 general election, I had a party featuring a gigantic cheesecake with differentiated segments by allegiance. It contained…
Making Labour work
A new leader will have to focus on winning, not sniping
Diary
I am writing a play about Dr Johnson and his Dictionary. It will be performed in Scotland later this year.…
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?
Scotland’s nasty party
If the SNP isn't about Scottish purity and hating the English, why do so many of its supporters behave as if it is?
Miliband country
A ‘progressive alliance’ would be a profound threat to rural life
Portrait of the week
Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into…
Barometer
Any answers? Nigel Farage accused the audience in the BBC opposition leaders’ debate of being left-wing. Need insulting an audience…
Mob rules
Would-be leaders of the left are harnessing the mood of angry populism
Scotland’s new national faith
The great SNP revival, and why it’s impervious to reason
Swing time
The age of two-party politics is over: we know that because everyone keeps saying so. We are entering an era…
Barometer
The Scottish way of death Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP would block a rise in the state pension age on…
A Scottish revolution is coming, and everyone’s losing their heads
Normally, if a candidate whose party came fourth in a constituency last time tells you they’re going to win, you…
Switch over to the Greek debt drama: the final episode must be coming shortly
Bored with the election? Switch over to the Greek debt drama. In this week’s cliffhanger, silver-tongued finance minister Yanis Varoufakis…
Miliband vs Millwall
I’ve been trying to think of a good football analogy to describe the battle between the two main parties as…
The election result that everyone expects – and no one wants
To form a coalition, David Cameron had to give up the Prime Ministerial prerogative to determine when the election was…
Caesar, Pompey and the SNP
Alex Salmond, the ex-first minister who proved incapable of making Scotland independent, has assured the world that he and his…
Salmond’s plan for Miliband
‘Would you like a glass of pink champagne?’ asks Alex Salmond at 3.30 p.m., sounding very much like a man…
Why no one’s telling the truth about Scotland
What a load of mendacious balls everybody talks about Scotland. It’s like a disease. It’s like, you know how they…
