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Prime Minister Cameron: Thank Europe
Published on 2010-05-12 03:43:44
As the new Prime Minister David Cameron begins his long task of attempting to construct what is essentially a European-style Christian Democrat coalition, it’s worth pausing and noting one of the paradoxes at the heart of this deal he’s done. The major party that has over the years been the most instinctively, most viscerally hostile to the European project has been fully infected by the bug. The party that more or less completely split in two over European policy in the 1990s owes its
Would you rather be in the Post Office?
Published on 2010-05-02 08:23:41
I was struck, while reading the London Review of Books, by a remark in an article by Benjamin Kunkel which perhaps deserves some attention: “Everyone talks, with good reason, about the runaway costs of healthcare in the US, but if healthcare inflation since 1980 has exceeded 400 per cent, the price of a university education has risen, on a recent calculation, by an incredible 827 per cent.”In a sense, this should not be surprising. In the developed world we spend less and less of our resourc
Personality politics and moral panics
Published on 2010-04-29 08:28:30
Both sides of the Atlantic are currently watching first rate examples of the power of modern personality politics. In the States, the Democrats are finally realising that it helps to have an enemy they can point to, and have decided that a couple of derivatives traders at Goldman Sachs will nicely fit the bill. Meanwhile, in the UK, a Rochdale granny has been propelled to the front of the election campaign after Brown was overhead saying she was a “bigoted woman” on a microphone that was sti
