The Politics Column
Rafael Behr's take on politics inside Westminster
Articles in The Politics Column
Results 51 to 60 of 366
UK Politics
Labour’s Neanderthal tendencies
- 11 November 2010
- 36 comments
The party should have reacted much earlier to Phil Woolas’s BNP-style electioneering. His populist rhetoric has left a deep stain.
UK Politics
Lessons for Labour from Obama’s midterm defeat
- 04 November 2010
- 29 comments
Is Ed Miliband as vulnerable as Obama has been to disillusionment?
UK Politics
Osborne’s modern-day clearances
- 28 October 2010
- 53 comments
The Tories are planning to cleanse the poor from our cities. But will Labour offer a workable alternative?
UK Politics
We are not all in this together
- 21 October 2010
- 79 comments
Ministers will be largely untouched by the cuts they are introducing. Is this a cabinet guided by the national interest or vested interests?
UK Politics
Ed Miliband must not be defined by his enemies
- 14 October 2010
- 36 comments
The coalition’s rhetoric of Labour’s supposed “deficit denial” should not be indulged.
UK Politics
The cult of Cameron runs into trouble
- 07 October 2010
- 46 comments
Since David Cameron came to prominence five years ago, the media have given him an easy ride. But with the recent uproar over the child benefit cut, is the tide beginning to turn?
UK Politics
Let Miliband be Miliband
- 30 September 2010
- 19 comments
The new Labour leader has no time to dither or prevaricate, but must act boldly.
UK Politics
Only Ed has the balls for shadow chancellor
- 23 September 2010
- 26 comments
Love him or not, whichever Miliband brother wins the Labour leadership contest must choose a man who has proved he has the most economic prowess — and tough-talking ability — to take on George Osborne.
UK Politics
Why David Miliband is rattled
- 16 September 2010
- 51 comments
A late surge of support for Ed Miliband has spooked his leadership rivals and the right-wing press.
UK Politics
Hacking into Andy Coulson’s past
- 09 September 2010
- 8 comments
Is the Prime Minister's director of communications, as his critics suggest, unfit to hold such high office?
