Pyrrhic Victory
Alex Salmond is pinning his success on the high-risk gamble that the EU will accept an independent Scotland as a full member. It won't
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Nick Clegg Captures the Mandarins’ Castle
Party-funding and constitutional reform reveal the Whitehall machine playing into the hands—and coffers—of the Lib Dems
What We Didn’t Know About Boris and Ken
Millions think next year’s London mayoral election is between an amiable Bertie Wooster and a Cockney cheeky chappie. Don’t you believe it
The GOD Squad’s Whitehall Coup
A constitutional revolution is under way, driven by an unelected cabal led by the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell
Europe, America and the Coalition
Two of the Conservative Party’s most influential thinkers, Nick Boles MP and Daniel Hannan MEP, discuss their contrasting visions with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson
Come Back, Trollope
Westminster's current inhabitants are perfect fodder for a great political satirist, if only we had one
The Misfit at No 10
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook and Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler
Here’s How Schools are Set Free, Mr Gove
The new Education Secretary's anti-statist revolution must live up to his rhetoric by allowing schools to set their own admissions policies
Can the Atlantic Coalition Hold?
William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor
Caning the Banks
The coalition government's new levy on banks will be a levy on banks' customers
Out of Proportion
It's British politicians who are broken or corrupt or out-of-touch, not the British political system
Worth the Wait
My mother, at the age of 100, may feel enfranchised at last During my lunch break on May 2 1997, I walked from my office in Mayfair across Green Park to watch