The Politics Column
Rafael Behr's take on politics inside Westminster
Articles in The Politics Column
Results 41 to 50 of 366
UK Politics
Mili’s band of rivals prepares for battle
- 27 January 2011
- 20 comments
Those who assume that Labour is a weak and divided party with no appetite for power should think again.
UK Politics
The coalition is held together by fear
- 20 January 2011
- 6 comments
The Tory-Lib Dem pact gelled because both parties worried that Britain’s economy would collapse. But will it hold when that threat recedes?
UK Politics
Ed can’t afford to miss this open goal
- 13 January 2011
- 24 comments
A recent 8-point lead over the Tories, sharing public feeling over the VAT increase and bankers’ pay — everything is playing into the Labour leader’s hands and he must seize the moment.
UK Politics
The coalition’s next car crash
- 06 January 2011
- 7 comments
Control orders have the potential to split and realign all three political parties.
UK Politics
The Lib Dems have buyer’s remorse
- 29 December 2010
- 14 comments
As the Lib Dems start to feel the pain of being in a dodgy marriage to the Tories, they must wonder if there was never another way back in May. But still Nick Clegg insists there is no alternative.
UK Politics
Coalition? This is a Tory government
- 15 December 2010
- 38 comments
Lib Dems have little say in a cabinet weighted in the Conservative Party's favour.
UK Politics
No escaping the ghost of Gordon
- 09 December 2010
- 56 comments
Brown is at the heart of David Cameron's strategy for winning the next election.
UK Politics
The unelected King
- 02 December 2010
- 23 comments
So much for the governor of the independent Bank of England not straying into party politics.
UK Politics
The tyranny of conventional wisdom
- 25 November 2010
- 33 comments
The same political pundits who called the general election and the Labour leadership race so hopelessly wrong have lined up to proffer their "advice" to Ed Miliband.
UK Politics
The sham of Cameron’s “big society”
- 18 November 2010
- 67 comments
The big society is little more than a buzz phrase.
