The Politics Column
Rafael Behr's take on politics inside Westminster
Articles in The Politics Column
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UK Politics
Memo to Blue Labourites: tone down the nostalgia
- 20 April 2011
- 39 comments
There was no golden age and the party must not idealise the working class.
UK Politics
It’s a miserable little compromise, but we should still vote Yes to AV
- 15 April 2011
- 52 comments
AV might have its flaws but first-past-the-post isn't fit for purpose.
UK Politics
Forget Lansley – Cameron is the one to blame for the NHS fiasco
- 07 April 2011
- 14 comments
The row over NHS reform is an example of not just political misjudgement on Cameron’s part but dishonesty, too
UK Politics
Here comes the summer of discontent
- 17 March 2011
- 56 comments
The unions are preparing to march. But where does Ed Miliband and the Labour Party stand?
UK Politics
The popular but dangerous sport of Lib Dem-baiting
- 11 March 2011
- 43 comments
The coalition has exacerbated Labour's worst tribalist tendencies.
UK Politics
If living standards keep falling, get ready for Ed’s Reagan moment
- 03 March 2011
- 25 comments
The charge that the Tory-led coalition has no plan to protect living standards is slowly gaining traction.
International Politics
Britain’s two-faced relationship with Middle-Eastern tyranny has to end
- 24 February 2011
- 83 comments
It’s all very well preaching democracy, but while our government continues to arm and vocally support despotic regimes, we are not morally entitled to do so.
UK Politics
Everything Michael Gove touches turns to dust
- 21 February 2011
- 20 comments
The Education Secretary has so far avoided the “at risk” list; but with his list of gaffes growing could his loyal friend David Cameron cut him loose?
UK Politics
Cameron’s cynical Muslim-bashing – and Labour’s shabby response
- 10 February 2011
- 63 comments
Why was Sadiq Khan the only shadow minister brave enough to speak up against the Tory leader’s straw man-littered argument?
Politics
The Prime Minister and his band of unhappy Tories
- 03 February 2011
- 33 comments
If Cameron is to survive midterm unpopularity, he needs to do much more to raise his party’s morale.
