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Power. We hardly ever talk about it except as an object. We want to win power – that’s why we have key seats and target lists. But the thing itself goes undebated. What is power? What should you do with it? Here’s one view:  You start with hope. But you can’t have...

‘We are not short of ideas – what is missing is the political will’. These words, by European Commission vice-president Joaquín Almunia, captured perfectly the mood at yesterday’s Policy Network conference on the aftermath of the European elections. More than by just...

You know it must be serious when Tony Blair pops up with a keynote speech. And it is serious: the European parliament results across the European Union were, in Blair-speak, a ‘wake-up call’ for European’s leaders as extreme parties of right and left gained ground and...

However many votes the United Kingdom Independence party win in tomorrow’s European elections, what Britain has witnessed in the past few weeks is a battle between the future and the past. The reason many politicians and journalists have struggled to characterise Ukip...