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UK Politics
Europe is Cameron’s Achilles heel
27 April 2011

Ed Miliband could pull a trick by following Gordon Brown’s firm line on the EU’s attempts to central

UK Politics
The rights and wrongs of Ed Balls
03 February 2011

Ed Miliband’s choice of shadow chancellor is right. But to take the fight to George Osborne and stay

UK Politics
Ed Miliband has it all to play for
01 October 2010

Various pundits think electing the younger brother as Labour leader has made it sure that the Tories

UK Politics
Why we should be grateful to Tony
09 September 2010

The former prime minister brought Labour out of the wilderness and made it a serious player again.

UK Politics
Too bad for Balls that he has baggage
26 August 2010

Damned for his loyalty to Gordon Brown and a thuggish tendency, the shadow schools secretary is the

UK Politics
The sperm lottery
10 December 2009

Our tax system is inequitable, but it seems neither main party is capable of change – Labour is obse

Global Issues
How to mend a broken Britain
07 May 2009

Neither of the major parties has a credible plan for limiting the damage caused by borrow-spend-and-

Global Issues
After the big squeeze
19 February 2009

This is not the New Depression, but we are on the way to discovering how the New Capitalism will ope

UK Politics
NS Essay - 'Unless Gordon Brown can get a grip on government policy, and soon, and reverse course on some of his cherished policies, he will almost certainly lose to the Tories, who seem to be selecting a little child to lead them out of the wilderness'
07 November 2005

By Irwin Stelzer: The leading American economist, who has advised both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown,

Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - A tide that cannot be turned
16 April 2001

Irwin Stelzer argues that economic self-interest is a better guide to immigration policy than humani

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