There’s a crisis in education and teachers’ morale has never been lower. Or has it? Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics
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
‘It was not a happy period’
Is it really deja vu all over again? Some quotes from the Labour Party in the early 1980s. Continue reading
‘A long time in politics’: Blowing hot and cold on the Autumn Statement
DAN ATKINSON wonders if George Osborne is channelling Supermac. Continue reading
Mili bruv songs
ALWYN TURNER wonders whether anyone still remembers David Miliband. Continue reading
‘The most degrading and bestial business in the world’
Remembrance hasn’t always been a pageant of national unity. ALWYN TURNER reveals how the British state once feared its veterans. Continue reading
Denis the menace
He was a political bruiser and hated by the left. But Denis Healey’s great achievement, argues DAN ATKINSON, was to cut without harming. Continue reading
‘Banal in the extreme’: A press portrait of Theresa May
ALWYN TURNER sums up the pre-premiership career of a difficult woman. Continue reading
Style matters
PAUL SAFFER suspects the slickness of this year’s Conservative Party conference will speak louder than any words actually uttered there. Continue reading
The Pangloss party
As the Tories muster in Manchester, DAN ATKINSON bursts their economic bubble. Continue reading
The Quiet Man II: This time it’s political
Jeremy Corbyn’s speech ‘warmed the cockles of the hearts of the faithful’. That’s all. Continue reading
