How To Stuff Up A Vote
As the campaign to modernise British voting staggers toward ignominious defeat, there’s much messy background…More
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A Strange Honeymoon
According to an interview he did with the UK’s Sun newspaper last week, an exhausted…More
Conservatives Cave On Voting Reform
David Cameron is Britain’s 53rd Prime Minister, the 19th to hail from the exclusive Eton…More
Dark Thoughts And Whispers
Since this article was published yesterday, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that he…More
The Last Election
The General Election for which UK voters are preparing themselves — and with such unexpected relish…More
The New Fascism Hates Muslims
If these aren’t fascists, they’re close enough as to make no difference. Last week, a…More
Oil Talks, And The Dying Scapegoat Walks
Abdelbasset Ali al Megrahi, the Libyan accused of the Pan Am airline bombing over Lockerbie…More
Who Will Feed On UK Labour's Remains?
The minority of English voters who bothered to turn out last week gave no more…More
The Decade New Labour Wasted
"Were you up for Portillo?" The excited catch-cry of Labour’s crushing victory in May 1997…More
Brown Dodges The Bullets
Is Gordon Brown back? Even in the chaos of international financial mayhem, the question of…More