A long, long time ago — two years ago to be precise — there lived some baddies with names like Adam Applegarth and Fred Goodwin, who almost destroyed the country. But that’s all history now, or rather just a “story”, as David Hare calls his new play, ...
Forget Adam Smith and his invisible hand, Edmund Burke’s little platoons and Karl Marx’s cry that the workers have nothing to lose but their chains. There is a new political philosopher — Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the easyJet founder. The theory that ...
So they’ve remembered the Balkans and appeased southern sensibilities. They’ve weighed up the Latins and Anglo-Saxons, thought about the Left and Right, the traffic stoppers and those who get stuck in jams. There are the men who break Brot with Angela ...
As we stood huddled at the Tower of London 15 years ago this week, coffee drawn, sandwiches quartered, John Major hailed the birth of the National Lottery. This was his big initiative, a jumble of numbers that would bring hope to millions while ...
Cabinet unease over the rising death toll of British troops in Afghanistan is exposed today. Peter Hain, the Welsh Secretary, becomes the first Cabinet minister openly to question the Government’s strategy. In an interview with The Times, he calls ...
For the past eight years, without realising it, I have been using a “fingertip amputation and laceration hazard”, not just for one of my children, but for all four. Every day I’ve strapped them into these dangerous contraptions and bounced them down ...
Chris Smith is the respectable radical. He was the first openly gay MP. As the Culture Secretary in Tony Blair’s Government, he pioneered free admissions to museums. Later, from the back benches, he masterminded opposition in the House of Commons to ...
Aaagrgh — it’s all-women shortlists again. White middle-class men talking about bringing more girlies into the House of Commons, jokes about breastfeeding on the benches, shire matrons stomping around in their Clarks shoes muttering about career women, ...
Sir Terry Leahy became chief executive of Tesco in 1997, just as Tony Blair was walking through the door of No 10. Within ten years he had turned the “pile it high and sell it cheap” food chain into a global supermarket brand. Tesco became new ...
It's revenge of the civil servants. And they have us over a barrel The first three days of Parliament’s return to life after the long summer hibernation have been a good time to be away studying sewerage systems in Sudan or, in my case, living in a ...
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