A shambolic week for Labour.

A shambolic week for Labour.

That the Labour Party has no formulated policy response to the government’s welfare reforms was predictable – that Red Ed’s shadow cabinet and war-makers within Labour have so failed to provide an alternative narrative to the reforms other than...
Lessons from Philpott?  Unlikely, but let’s see.

Lessons from Philpott? Unlikely, but let’s see.

When George Osborne waded into the tragic case of the Derby fire deaths today, all eyes turned to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to identify a gaffe, an insensitivity or a slight.  When they didn’t detect one, they decided to make one up.  The Chancellor seems...

Welcome to 2013. I’m blogging again.

Hello. I’ve been away for a long time. I’ve been writing a book and it’s almost done, so I thought I’d try to get back into the spirit of things, now my dalliance with blogging among more notable luminaries on Iain Dale’s site has ended....