Tuesday review Articles

In 2004 the Liberal Democrats gained a 123 seats. Labour kept calm, carried on, and duly won a third general election. In 2013 the United Kingdom Independence party won 139 seats, and now the whole coalition agreement is up for sale. That puts a Conservative majority...

If you want an insight into how the 2015 election might play out, don’t look at the results of the local elections. Look at the new five-pound note. When Winston Churchill replaces Elizabeth Fry on the back of the fiver, notes in England and Wales will celebrate a...

The past is a foreign country; you remember the lovely meals, the better weather and the prettier locals. You forget the screaming row on the first night, the broken shower-rail and the closed museum. This year, there’s a sense that we no longer as a nation really...

‘Death is not the end,’ a poet writes, ‘Death is the credits rolling. The movie was over a while ago.’ The Thatcher era wasn’t brought to a close with the death of Margaret Thatcher. The end came with the election of Tony Blair. Yes, there were hangovers. The social...