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Charlie Falconer Articles

A tale of two houses

Last week two pieces of legislation were debated in parliament. One showed our politics at its best and the other at its worst. In the Commons, with a media mostly distracted by a cabinet reshuffle, the government pushed through ‘emergency’ surveillance legislation....
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At Power’s Elbow

Rows about spin, concerns about the centralising of decision-making and over powerful aides. Not a new book about Downing Street today but rather a detailed new volume that shows these rows are as old as the post of prime minister itself. Indeed, within the first...
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In Defence of Politicians (In Spite of Themselves)

Politicians have always been a loathed race apart, as King Lear (‘scurvy politicians’) and Abraham Lincoln (‘one step removed from honest men’) indicated. Peter Riddell’s book argues that current British politicians are generally well motivated, but have not been at their best in defending themselves from the excesses of the hardcore abusers in the expenses scandal.

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Only part of the picture

Charlie Falconer reviews Peter Mandelson’s ‘The Third Man’ and finds there is much more in both his and Brown and Blair’s achievements that is lost in this account from inside the heart of New Labour.

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