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In much of Westminster, Alex Salmond’s campaign for Scottish independence is already regarded as a doomed cause.
When an election looks hard to win, MPs sometimes seek solace in the myth that it might not, after all, be so bad to lose.
As I write, the Bilderberg Group is holding its annual conference in Watford, which must be a shock after St Moritz, Switzerland, in 2011.
The need for global leadership has never been greater but ever fewer are prepared or in a position to provide it.
At the last election, fixing politics seemed as urgent a task as fixing the economy.
Did you know that the alleged ringleader in the 11 September 2001 attacks had originally planned to land one of the hijacked US airliners and give a speech to the assembled press corps?
After his election as Conservative Party leader in 2005, David Cameron promised to create a party at ease with the forces shaping modern Britain.
“Yesterday’s anti-colonialists are trying to humanise the generalised colonialism of power.
Rhys Hopkin Morris was the Liberal MP for Cardiganshire (1923-32) and Carmarthen (1945-56), one of just two gains from Labour at the 1945 general election, defeating Moelwyn Hughes, who went on to
It took Emily Davison four days to die.
In the wake of Ukip’s success in the county council elections, I dug out an article I published in early 2005 in my final months as New Statesman editor.
The Conservative Party hasn’t won a general election for over two decades and its latest infighting on Europe suggests that this trick may get repeated.
There is a stark choice facing British politics, expressed in the rivalry between two leaders. They have very different styles and incompatible creeds.