Is Martin Kettle right – could the Lib Dems eclipse Labour?
LDV has eschewed mention of the past week’s opinion polls, three of which have shown the Lib Dems to be the chief beneficiaries of the recent slump in Labour support. As our regular readers will know,...
View ArticleIs Gordon safe?
Martin Kettle’s article in The Guardian – suggesting that the week beginning 12th October is make-or-break week for those Labour MPs who’d like to oust Gordon Brown – has sparked a fresh bout of Labour...
View ArticleIt’s not Britain that’s illiberal, Martin – it’s our political culture
Was The Guardian’s Martin Kettle right yesterday to argue, as per his article’s headline, The biggest problem for the Liberal Democrats is illiberal Britain. It was a long, thoughtful piece – and, hey,...
View ArticleOpinion: The Tories are coming towards us
Martin Kettle recently wrote in the Guardian today of David Cameron: The Tory leader is exploiting every opportunity the political situation presents him to drag his party rapidly towards the liberal...
View ArticleOpinion: Nanny no more – a real test of the Coalition
It was inevitable, it had to happen at some point, the honeymoon couldn’t last forever (insert any other clichés you’d like to add); the Coalition government, drenched in soft summery praise in its...
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Lords reform, Boris Johnson and Louise Mensch: Guardian podcast
This week’s Politics Weekly podcast from The Guardian features, ahem, myself alongside Martin Kettle, Nick Cohen and Tom Clark. Lords reform, Boris Johnson’s political future and the Corby by-election...
View ArticleThe Coalition: we’re trapped in a loveless marriage with no happy ending in...
The Guardian’s Martin Kettle has an acute analysis — This is the beginning of the end for the coalition — of what the Queen’s Speech has revealed about the Coalition Government. It’s 20 years since...
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