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Just before prime minister’s questions today the government announced there would be a free vote on fox hunting. For George Osborne’s sake, let’s hope that it passes, as with today’s announcement on a compulsory ‘national living wage’, he has just shot a major Labour...

George Osborne crossed dressed and declared himself a one nation chancellor in both the headline measures of his budget and in its details. Legislation for a living wage was intended as the closing showstopper and abolishing permanent non-dom status stole the policy...

After the Oxi landslide many Greeks are fearful. ‘I am scared. But if we leave Europe we are alone. Turkey, Syria, Russia, the banks are closed and our economy in crisis. What we do?’, one friend asks It was the young who, overwhelmingly, gave Alexis Tsipiras the Oxi...

The terrorist group calling itself Islamic State is far from defeatist – it believes it will win. Given the defeatism displayed by the international community, especially the west, who can blame them? Defeatism leads to inaction. Inaction has consequences, for the...