The Politics Column
James Macintyre’s incisive guide to politics inside and outside of Westminster
Articles in The Politics Column
Results 51 to 60 of 285
UK Politics
No nation broker
- 12 March 2009
- 4 comments
Gordon Brown hopes the G20 summit in London will restore his and Labour’s fortunes. He should be so lucky, writes Peter Riddell
UK Politics
Back on the terror trail
- 12 March 2009
The republican killers of three security service men in Northern Ireland represent nothing but their own bigotry, writes Leo McKinstry
UK Politics
Our age of hysteria
- 05 March 2009
- 3 comments
The death of Ivan Cameron, bankers’ bonuses, Brown in America: now raw emotion is the driving force of our politics
UK Politics
When blue turned red
- 26 February 2009
- 11 comments
The "new" in New Labour was skin-deep: it marked the party's capitulation to Thatcher, writes Martin Jacques
UK Politics
''That Bloody Woman''
- 26 February 2009
- 5 comments
Margaret Thatcher thought she understood Scotland... but no prime minister was ever so hated there. Her legacy was to destroy her party and threaten the Union she loved
Economy
After the big squeeze
- 19 February 2009
- 36 comments
This is not the New Depression, but we are on the way to discovering how the New Capitalism will operate argues economist Irwin Stelzer. And in an online exclusive, Vince Cable calls for bonuses to be linked to long-term performance.
UK Politics
Look on the bright side
- 12 February 2009
- 1 comment
Labour's attempts to rally Britain with a Blitz-type spirit might just work if the Tories keep insisting that we're all doomed
UK Politics
If not Brown, is it Balls?
- 12 February 2009
- 4 comments
The Schools Secretary needs to be more of a team player if he is not to alienate his colleagues and jeopardise his party's credibility, as well as his own aspirations to lead it
UK Politics
Leaders of the pact?
- 29 January 2009
- 13 comments
The time has come to think the unthinkable, argues Sunder Katwala: a coalition between Labour and the Lib Dems
Middle East
The horror comes home
- 22 January 2009
- 89 comments
In Britain, the assault on Gaza has provided a dangerous rallying point for both the hard left and the Islamist radical right
