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Major and Mobility

John Major is wrong. Far from the current Conservative-led cabinet being overwhelmingly privately educated it is in fact the most representative in history

November 27, 2013

Counterpoints·UK Politics

What Will Georgian England Look Like?

Our future King’s dominion will be unrecognisable but the political class has not yet come to terms with its fast-changing landscape

November 25, 2013

Features·UK Politics

Scrap the Licence Fee and Privatise the BBC

The logic behind a nationalised broadcaster was never perfect. In the age of subscription television and the internet it is indefensible

November 25, 2013

Features·Media·UK Politics

Tristram Hunt’s Lies About Free Schools

Labour’s rising star has accused Michael Gove of conducting a “dangerous ideological experiment”. He is wrong — and he knows it

November 25, 2013

Education·Features·UK Politics

From Eastern Europe to the East End

'There is a whole Eastern European city of half a million people in London. More than 80 per cent have arrived since 2004. It is a city working in basic jobs, with

October 29, 2013

Dispatches·Immigration·UK Politics

How Seminal Was Burke?

In his biography of the statesman, Jesse Norman presents Burke as of seminal importance to today’s conservatism, and to Cameron’s government. He isn’t.

June 25, 2013

Books·History·UK Politics·Westminster

The Birth of the Affluent Society

David Kynaston’s Modernity Britain, the fifth of his series of histories of Britain since 1945, reveals the late Fifties to be not a time of illiberalism and repression, but of a generosity

June 25, 2013

Books·History·Modern Life·TV·UK Politics

Walking With Maggie

Mrs Thatcher often went on an after-dinner walk and she asked me to accompany her on several occasions. Years later, to my delight, she remembered these strolls

May 29, 2013

Counterpoints·UK Politics

For Her, It Was Always a Question of Honour

Two major biographies of Margaret Thatcher — one vivid and concise, the other magisterial — are essential reading for anyone who cares about the Iron Lady

May 29, 2013

Books·UK Politics