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New Politics: The Prime Minister Speaks 7 Jun 2010 | 08:40 pm
“Britain can do better. Britain can be better than this. … Building the greatness of our nation through the greatness of its people. No more squandering the nation’s assets. No more sleaze .. No ...
Same candidate elected, in two different constituencies, for two different parties 29 May 2010 | 12:51 am
The parliamentary constituencies of Feverford in Kent and Trough in Hertfordshire are not especially well known. But linking these two seats - one Conservative, one Labour - is one astonishing fact, s...
Why we need a stronger Electoral Commission 24 May 2010 | 11:34 pm
The election may be over – Thirsk and Malton notwithstanding – but the fall out from the polling station queues continues. The Electoral Commission’s Interim Report came out last week. It makes for fa...
The next Great Reform Act? Pull the other one, Nick. 20 May 2010 | 11:27 pm
Nick Clegg has called the new government’s measures to reform politics ‘the most significant programme of empowerment by a British government since the great reforms of the 19th Century’, indeed since...
The new Baldwin? 20 May 2010 | 08:45 pm
"I for one think that the past is as much of a guide to the future as our current neophilia. On that basis, LibDems beware!" Few Liberal Democrats have put their coalition with the Conservatives into ...
And the election should be called.... 19 May 2010 | 09:54 pm
"The election battle will be succeeded by the battle of the election books..." Philip Cowley has asked us what we would call the last election? I think we should name it the Don’t Know Election. Ipso...
How bad was the election...really? 18 May 2010 | 11:36 pm
"There is a saying in the Philippines that no one loses in elections, there are only winners and those that are cheated. Arguably the cheating has simply entered the digital age..." How much effort d...
But what would you call it? 17 May 2010 | 11:15 pm
"...if you were going to name the 2010 election, what would you call it?" The opening book in the ‘Nuffield’ election series – The British General Election of 1945 – lists a series of ‘named’ electio...
Forget the 55% rule. This is what will really limit Parliament 16 May 2010 | 10:48 pm
"...the routine defeats of the government by the upper House, and the subsequent negotiation and compromise between the two – could still be seriously limited..." Leave aside for now the fuss about t...
What’s happening to the BNP? 15 May 2010 | 11:33 pm
"It’s tempting to write the BNP off...but...one of Griffin's saving graces will be the distinct lack of leadership calibre among potential would-be-successors..." Aside from a bigoted woman in Rochda...
