The Politics Column
Rafael Behr's take on politics inside Westminster
Articles in The Politics Column
Results 91 to 100 of 366
UK Politics
Get real, Labour optimists
- 30 December 2009
- 3 comments
To make a fist of the coming election Labour must start with a hard-headed view of what is really going on
UK Politics
Mandarins make MPs sitting ducks
- 17 December 2009
- 4 comments
In Britain today, only non-elected figures can act politically and be treated with respect
UK Politics
Camp Cameron and the progressives
- 10 December 2009
The extraordinary reaction to Speaker Bercow and his wife shows that Cameron and his allies only really like modernisers on their own terms
UK Politics
Cameron's inheritance-tax error
- 03 December 2009
- 1 comment
Conservative donors stand to gain from David Cameron's planned cuts to inheritance tax
UK Politics
No more leadership talk, please
- 26 November 2009
- 1 comment
Alan Johnson defends Gordon Brown and insists the debate on electoral reform is not over
UK Politics
Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader
- 19 November 2009
- 2 comments
Public patience with the Afghanistan war is running out. Brown may yet regret becoming a war leader
UK Politics
The Sun sinks to a new low
- 12 November 2009
- 2 comments
The Sun has returned to doing what it does best: bashing Labour. And, it seems, at any price
UK Politics
Brussels is back with a vengeance
- 05 November 2009
- 2 comments
The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty creates new dilemmas for David Cameron-and for David Miliband
UK Politics
“We must move on from New Labour”
- 29 October 2009
- 4 comments
The Westminster village would do well to listen to an emboldened Peter Hain
UK Politics
How the BNP came in from the cold
- 22 October 2009
- 4 comments
Question Time's grotesque stunt has allowed the BNP to enter the political mainstream. There is now no going back
