The Politics Column
Rafael Behr's take on politics inside Westminster
Articles in The Politics Column
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UK Politics
Nick “Heineken” Clegg’s love of Europe is good diplomacy but suicidal politics
- 10 November 2011
- 32 comments
Clegg's fervent Europeanism sticks out amid the Euroscepticism of his Conservative colleagues, and is completely at odds with the spirit of the times.
UK Politics
Miliband risks being drowned out in a cacophony of populist outrage
- 03 November 2011
- 12 comments
Political anger is on the rise. In an anti-politician climate, Labour does not have monopoly on opposition.
UK Politics
Despite the rebellion over Europe, the Tories remain united
- 27 October 2011
- 21 comments
The media will continue to play the issue hard, but beneath the surface lies a small triumph for Cameron and the Conservatives.
UK Politics
Cameron has outsourced worrying about compassion. He’ll regret it
- 13 October 2011
- 8 comments
Iain Duncan Smith's fretting about poverty is no replacement for an empathetic prime minister.
UK Politics
King David struggles to control his cabinet of wayward barons
- 29 September 2011
- 11 comments
While the New Labour project was staffed with card-carrying Blairites, it is hard to identify ardent Cameroons in government.
UK Politics
Why Lib Dems love the grumpy Tories
- 22 September 2011
- 6 comments
The calm surface of coalition politics conceals a simple fact — none of the political parties has found a way of selling hung politics to the British people.
UK Politics
A crisis has come, so it’s time for Cameron to bang on about Europe
- 15 September 2011
- 11 comments
The European crisis demands a fuller response than Cameron has given but he is cautious with good reason.
UK Politics
Three years since the crash and not a single “bankster” is in jail
- 12 September 2011
- 52 comments
Where has all the anger over grotesque bank bonuses gone? Why has there been no accountability?
UK Politics
The “Son of Brown” label is toxic, but not for the reasons you’d think
- 09 September 2011
- 4 comments
The Brown administration did not fail just because the PM got cross, but because he lacked a clearly defined agenda.
UK Politics
Nick Clegg might be unpopular, but there will be no regicide
- 01 September 2011
- 19 comments
The best testimony to the Lib Dems' power is the fury it routinely provokes on the Tory right.
