Rip-off Britain and why Ed Miliband can't buck the market
Bashing "rip-off Britain" is about as brave as praising motherhood and Ed Miliband is just the latest to do so – but could his proposals work? Forcing pension fund managers and financial advisers to...
View ArticleEd Miliband's posturing does no justice to capitalism's problems
Fresh from his victories on Stephen Hester’s bonus (Pyrrhic) and Fred Goodwin’s knighthood, Ed Miliband is back banging the “responsible capitalism” drum. And, once again, he’s poking the soft...
View ArticlePMQs: Ed Miliband's successful 2012
The last PMQs of the year was one of the oddest. Andrew Mitchell, peacocking in a splendid pink tie, looked the happiest man in the room; the Speaker seemed happy to let the incessant Labour barracking...
View ArticleTony Blair treats a British ambassador like a flunkey and broadcasts a 'video...
How the party of the poor became the party of the elites is one of the enduring mysteries of our time. Nowhere is this truer than in the case of Labour's European policy. Tony Blair's enthusiastic...
View ArticlePMQs: Dave and Ed are obsessed with the symptom, not the illness, and Britain...
Ed Milliband isn't good with open goals. Electing to take Dave to task over the AAA downgrade, he failed to land a blow. Dave's stock response – that the Labour leader would not tackle the debt crisis...
View ArticlePMQs is broken and our democracy is suffering
Prime Minister's Questions is in need of a revamp. The format isn't working. The Prime Minister seldom applies himself to the question, the questioner frequently selects a question of such mind-numbing...
View ArticleCandidates don't matter. Policies do. That's why the Tory attack on Ukip...
There's an awful lot of personality politics about at the moment. That the Conservative campaign against Ukip is based entirely on attacking the personalities of obscure council candidates tells us a...
View ArticleEd Miliband has the potential to be a great prime minister
In a short time, I shall be leaving the country for at least two years (stop cheering). When I return, Ed Miliband will be the prime minister. Whether this constitutes an achievement for a Labour...
View ArticleEd Miliband's speech, summarised: 'Get out the flares, it's back to the...
"We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two...
View ArticleThe truth about smoking – it saves the public purse a lot of money
Ed Miliband is expected to propose a new tax on tobacco companies – possibly levied according to market share – in his Labour Party conference speech to help fund greater spending on the National...
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