Ex PM's wife claims she's not a fare dodger after failing to swipe Oyster card
Gordon Brown's wife, Sarah Brown, has protested after having to pay an £80 fine for failing to swipe her Oyster card on the London Underground system
- 7 May 2013
The Conservatives: Reasons to be cheerful
Labour and UKIP are both likely to make gains in the upcoming local elections, but don't dismiss the Tories
- 23 April 2013
The worst government since... the last one!
Growth is occurring, says Robin Mitchinson, it's just that this government can't seem to foster it...
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The Labour Party is kooky. It can be beaten
The current Labour leadership is the repository for every failed orthodoxy, every tried-and-failed idea over the past fifteen years
- 14 March 2013
Thatcher's the best! New poll names ex-Tory leader as greatest prime minister
A new poll by ComRes for the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Mirror shows that Margaret Thatcher the most respected leader of the past five decades
- 16 February 2013
Hypocrisy, lies, and spin: Miliband and the 10p tax rate
He may have pulled the wool over the eyes of many, but Miliband’s first major policy announcement was a masterclass in double standards, deceit and shameless spin
- 15 February 2013
Dr Eoin Clarke needs a New Year's Resolution: to stop being so wrong
Is Dr Eoin Clarke the most wrong man ever to have lived?
- 31 December 2012
Brits blame Labour and their banks for UK recession
A new poll shows that Brits still blame Labour and Labour-regulated banks for 2008 financial crisis
- 20 December 2012
The left's bully tactics and the shifting of goalposts
The Left's tactics over Starbucks and the NHS show that it is not committed to economic recovery - and the right is failing too
- 11 December 2012
Confidence: It's a funny old game
Politics, like football can be a game of two halves. Can this government be radical enough to win the game?
- 7 December 2012
We need a post-Monetarist approach to economics
Real Tory modernisers would be asking how we might tackle the underlying decline in competitiveness, rather than dismissing demands for tax cuts and deregulation as a "right wing" obsession
- 6 December 2012
The week that Osbrown economics failed
It is not the constraints of Coalition that are holding us back, but a lack of ambitious, radical thinking inside the Treasury
- 3 December 2012
How much Gordon?
A panicked decision to buy Northern Rock has already cost the taxpayer £2bn and there's another £66bn we could be stuck with
- 16 November 2012
PMQs: Inflation down, crime down, performance down
With outings like this at the despatch box becoming a regular occurrence, the idea of Prime Minister Miliband is slowly becoming less absurd
- 24 October 2012
A tribute to Sir Stuart Bell MP
Sir Stuart Bell MP passed away yesterday. One of his recent colleagues, Peter Botting, pays tribute
- 14 October 2012
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