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 ...
A few days after the so-called Biscuitgate affair — in which Gordon Brown failed to tell the users of Mumsnet whether he preferred Jaffa Cakes or Kit Kats — a packet of Downing Street own brand chocolate chip cookies arrived at the parenting website’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alistair Darling has promised to outline specific spending cuts this autumn in a move that dramatically recasts Labour’s political strategy. In an interview with The Times, the Chancellor said that, as the economic crisis recedes, ministers must ...
When we interviewed Alistair Darling last summer, the Chancellor was the Government’s prophet of gloom. As he set off to battle the midges in the Scottish isles, he warned us that Britain was heading for the worst recession in decades. He said he ...
I don’t want you to write about my nice paintings,” Lynn Barber says as she leads us into her sitting room. “But Lynn,” we say, “you made your name snooping around other people’s houses and childhoods. “You’re the Demon Barber, not to be trusted with ...
Desmond Tutu is the politician-preacherman. He is a peacemaker who is not afraid to throw verbal grenades, a rock’n’roll rabble-rouser, an elder statesman who is constantly reduced to giggles. During the apartheid era he was hailed as a messiah of ...
He’s the Formula One supremo who drives a Lexus, the towering billionaire who is only 5ft 4in and the yacht owner who never goes on holiday. There are more twists and turns to Bernie Ecclestone’s life than the Monaco Grand Prix. At work he is seen ...
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