It’s not just nurses – ministers are also trapped in a bureaucratic cage
With the Royal College of Nursing claim that nurses are “drowning in a sea of paperwork”, now seems a good… Read more »
Edited by Peter Franklin
The lost tribes of British politics – day five: the palaeo-conservatives, Blue Labour and the Red Tories
9. The Palaeo-conservatives While libertarians have an optimistic view of human nature, palaeo-conservatives are characteristically pessimistic – or realistic, as… Read more »
The lost tribes of British politics – day 4: the high liberals and the libertarians
7. The high liberals Having looked at the left yesterday, let’s head back towards the right; but not too far… Read more »
The lost tribes of British politics – day 3: the Labour left and the palaeo-socialists
5. The Labour Left Just because New Labour is done for it doesn’t mean that Old Labour is back in… Read more »
The lost tribes of British politics – day 2: the Blairites and the liberal interventionists
3. The Blairites Arguably, the Blairites are going the same way as the Tory wets (featured yesterday). In fact, one… Read more »
The lost tribes of British politics – Day 1: the Christian democrats and the Tory wets
Looking back on the glory days of Thatcherism, Conservative rightwingers may be tempted to think that it's all over. Nothing… Read more »
Heresy of the week: Fiscal conservatism has been betrayed by people who call themselves conservatives
Good news! Share values are reaching new records – not only in Britain, but in America too! But, here, courtesy… Read more »
Like a string of pearls, to make the most of our Northern cities we need to thread them together
America has the ‘BosWash corridor’ (Boston through to Washington), Germany has the Ruhr valley, Japan has Tokyo-Yokohama. England, of course,… Read more »
Modern families: Bad for children, but good for women?
Marry in haste, repent at leisure: a piece of advice that seems as pertinent as ever, even in the age… Read more »
Putting the needs of children before adults means getting married before having children
It’s called the ‘capstone’ model of marriage – i.e. not getting married until you’re established “professionally, personally, and relationship-wise.” Writing… Read more »
If we want stable families then men need stable jobs
Family instability is as big a problem in the US as it is in the UK. The difference is that… Read more »
Heresy of the week: Mass immigration is a radical rightwing policy – but not in a good way
If someone were to declare their enthusiastic support for mass immigration, dismissing anyone who thinks otherwise as a backward xenophobe,… Read more »
Watch out, China’s about to change the world economy – again
When something big changes the world in a short period of time we tend to think that it will continue… Read more »
Leftwing internationalists are the most self-centred people on the planet
There is an ideological fault line that divides the left from top to bottom. Nick Cohen, stands on one side… Read more »
Corporate tax dodgers make us all poorer, but the poorest people in the world suffer most
Which nation or territory is the world’s biggest exporter of bananas, would you say? Brazil? Columbia? Malaysia? No, none of… Read more »
