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This year, I had the professional pleasure of visiting Tory conference for the first time. The annual gathering is famed for its diversity – some middle-aged white men were from south-east England and some were from south-west England. There were stands selling tweed...

The two main antagonists for May 2015 have had their say. Right down to choosing Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow’ – immortalised in Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign of 1992, it also sold five million copies in 1977, incidentally –...

If asked what Tech City needs, few people would answer ‘More government’. So it’s not straightforward to work out the role of government in making Britain the world’s leading digital nation – the vision at the centre of Labour Digital’s Number One in Digital report...

The leader’s speech is Ed Miliband’s last chance to win the mantle of prime minister-in-waiting, writes Philip Collins In one sense Miliband knows exactly what he needs to do. He finds himself in the position of Margaret Thatcher in 1978 and Tony Blair in 1996, two...