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David Cameron shares a joke with actor Brian Blessed on Downing Street.
By Rafael Behr - 24 April

If the Tories had set out in government with the aim of deliberately making themselves unpopular, they might not have proceeded very differently.

Polly Toynbee (in 1965): Boris's dream woman. Photograph: Getty Images
By Boris Johnson - 11 April

I used to be petrified of the Staggers. I mean it.

By Stephen Brasher - 10 April

James Graham’s play This House (currently at the National Theatre) shows the whittling away of the 1974-79 Labour government’s majority.

A mother and daughter protesting about immigration controls. Photograph: Getty I
By New Statesman - 27 March

Ever since the Thatcher era, British politics has been defined by forms of economic and social liberalism.

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By Rafael Behr - 27 March

One thing is certain in any discussion of energy policy: bills are going up, regardless of how Britain generates electricity – coal, gas, nuclear, wind, wave, solar . . .

David Cameron. Photograph: Getty Images
By Rafael Behr - 26 March

The quality that David Cameron and George Osborne want voters to admire most in a politician is the ability to make hard choices.

By Mehdi Hasan - 21 March

If tomorrow, God forbid, I were to cause the death of an innocent man with my car, minutes after sending a series of texts on my mobile phone, I’m guessing I’d spend the rest of my life

Vince Cable. Photograph: Getty Images
By New Statesman - 14 March

Confronted by the threat of a third recession in four years, George Osborne’s response has largely been one of fatalism: after years of New Labour excess, we must resign ourselves to a sustai

No longer can David Cameron plausibly claim that "there is no alternative".
By New Statesman - 14 March

Opponents of George Osborne’s austerity programme have at last acquired what they had lacked until now: an ally at the top of government.

Nick Clegg holds forth. Photograph: Getty Images
By Peter Wilby - 14 March

“Don’t make a fuss!” was the Daily Mail’s front-page headline, paraphrasing the mon - arch’s instruction when she needed hospitalisation after repeated dashes

The sense of chronic impermanence in No. 10 fuels leadership speculation.
By Rafael Behr - 14 March

Harold Wilson was wrong. A week is just as long in politics as anywhere else.

Cameron has never come up with a convincing explanation of the crisis.
By Rafael Behr - 06 March

Would the UK Independence Party shut up shop if it achieved its goal of pulling Britain out of the European Union? Plainly not.

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