Remembering the government’s defeat over Sunday trading in 1986. Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics
Reasons to be leaving: Part 1 – Trade
Who will speak for Britain’s silent mercantilists? DAN ATKINSON, that’s who. Continue reading
Might as well face it, they’re addicted to ads
Wasn’t the government going to slash its advertising budget? ALWYN TURNER bemoans the return of the Whitehall nag. Continue reading
Kneller Hall: The trumpets still sound (just)
As the Royal Military School of Music faces closure, ALWYN TURNER remembers a previous attempt to sell it off. Continue reading
Losing our balance: The same old same old
DAN ATKINSON looks at how George Osborne’s ‘cocktail of new threats’ might affect the ‘rebalancing’ of the economy. Continue reading
‘Politics is not like shopping’: A press portrait of Hilary Benn
ALWYN TURNER looks at the career of the man once tipped to be Labour’s next leader. Continue reading
Standpipe memories: I wish it could be 1976 again
DAN ATKINSON is bracing himself for a surfeit of political nostalgia. Continue reading
2015 Politician of the Year (living)
National leader? Or piggy in the middle? Continue reading
2015 Politician of the Year (dead)
The unexpected return of a lost Labour hero. Continue reading
‘Morale could not be lower’
There’s a crisis in education and teachers’ morale has never been lower. Or has it? Continue reading
The curious case of the kidnapped communist
ALWYN TURNER explores the curious incident that befell Harry Pollitt in 1925. Continue reading
Peter Oborne and the kiss of death
Is Oborne’s approval the beginning of the end for a party leader? Continue reading
