Those that term themselves "pro-choice" like to present their position as being "scientific" and the position of their opponents as… Read more »
This post was composed jointly with the Rev Peter Ould, who blogs at www.peter-ould.net The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin… Read more »
The target measure of inflation, CPI, rose from 2.2% to 2.7% this month, well above the 2.4% expected. As recently… Read more »
One of the most important constitutional disputes is that between the Jeffersonian (or "Democrat") and Burkean conceptions of democracy. For… Read more »
Bruce Anderson tells us that Labour is now the party focused on power, whilst the Conservative Party has degenerated into… Read more »
One of the worst strategic errors made by Cameron and Hague in 2009 came in the immediate aftermath of the… Read more »
Michael Heseltine was, after Mandelson, Blair, and Portillo (in that order) my fourth favourite politician of the past two decades. … Read more »
The New Statesman recently declared: "The inflation hawks were wrong." ConservativeHome's The Deep End tried to excuse them, declaring: "The inflation… Read more »
Any good Conservative recognises a bias towards the status quo; one should need more reason to change things than to… Read more »
That's the trouble with hoping for the messiah for a long time – when people say he's turned up you condemn… Read more »
Since Jeremy Hunt's comments just before Party Conference, abortion has been back in the news. When abortion is discussed, there… Read more »
One of the strongest arguments the SNP has for its Scottish independence proposals seems, oddly, to have passed it by… Read more »
By 2005, Conservatives were broadly agreed that if we were to win we needed to appeal to a set of voters… Read more »
As Chancellor, George Osborne faces a considerable problem, and it’s far from clear there is any politically feasible way he… Read more »
Chart: Correlation between changes in government deficit and changes in exchange rate (click to enlarge) Source: Europe Economics analysis on… Read more »