Kirsty McNeill Articles

There are three lessons Labour should draw from the Democrats’ electoral woes, writes Kirsty McNeill When the 114th Congress meets in January the Republican majority in the House of Representatives will be at its biggest since Clement Attlee was prime minister. The...

Scotland has spoken decisively, but its ‘No, thanks’ is as much to the status quo as it is to separation. Scotland’s turnout – at 84.5 per cent – marks the return of Scotland’s great Enlightenment tradition of deliberation and participation, and the margin of the ‘No’...

Books about the global financial crisis and its aftermath have tended to fall in to two camps: attempts by spectators to explain what decisions were made, and attempts by participants to justify why they were made. European Spring is intriguing because its author,...

Three things Ed Miliband’s conference speech must do —Conference speeches are one of the opposition leader’s few guaranteed media platforms so the temptation for Ed Miliband to fill his with a rerun of every argument and announcement denied a fair hearing must be...