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 The reaction from the liberal-left to David Mamet’s confession that he is no longer a “brain-dead liberal” has been strangely…

The Spectator recently ran a letter from Lord Adonis saying the Swedish schools revolution which I said David Cameron would…

A guest blog from Nadine Dorries, MP.  The Human Tissue and Embryology Bill will be the show of the year…

Next week, Gordon Brown will meet with Nicolas Sarkozy at the home of French football. And, according to early reports, Sarkozy will come…

The issue of party funding is going to run and run with the parties still nowhere near an agreement on…

This week’s Time has an important piece on Iran’s role in training, funding and arming the insurgency in Iraq. What…

It is hard to know quite what is going on in Tibet because of the obstructionism of the Chinese government.…

Why is the most solemn day in the Christian calendar called Good Friday? In Sweden and Denmark it’s “long Friday”;…

It is a definite coup for David Cameron that John McCain saw him as well as Gordon Brown today. It…

For some reason, MPs have been struck by the poetry bug recently.  First there was the anonymously-penned verse attacking the Prime Minister.  And now Theresa…

David Cameron’s been picking on Ed Balls recently, and to good effect.  Here’s footage of the Tory leader’s latest swipe in PMQs yesterday:

As today’s FT reports, Jack Straw is leading the charge to reform the House of Lords.  Under his plans, most of…

Mike Smithson makes a good observation over at Political Betting.  The detailed results from that recent YouGov poll show that some…

Iain Martin’s article for the Telegraph today is well worth a read. In it he’s praiseful of Project Cameron, but…

John McCain is doing Europe tomorrow: Brown for breakfast, Cameron for afters and Sarkozy in Paris in the afternoon. It’s…

As Pete said earlier, even by this government’s low standards, the National Security Strategy is a pitifully weak document. It…

There’s a fun but revealing story in the FT today about a row within the Cabinet about what kind of…

Iain Martin highlights it over at Three Line Whip, and rightly so – Jeff Randall’s hatchet job on Alan Greenspan is essential…

4 months overdue, Gordon Brown today outlined a new national security strategy. Was it worth the wait? Not particularly. It’s…

There are two PMQs: the one seen from galleries in the Commons chamber, and the one on television. The more…

Like Mother Theresa, it was Arthur C Clarke’s historic misfortune to die in the same week as someone with more…

An intriguing item in the Ephraim Hardcastle diary in The Daily Mail this morning suggests that cash for honours will…

A downloadable podcast of last night’s Spectator / Intelligence Squared debate – “The West is provoking a new Cold War…

Gordon Brown’s got an article in today’s Sun.  Its message?  That we shouldn’t worry about the economy, because he’s got…

From his deckchair in Vietnam, Guido blogs on the latest openings for the revamped (and, perhaps, jinxed) Team Brown –…