Nick Clegg
How to save money: switch to cash and reprogram your boiler
We’ll find out shortly whether official statistics agree with economists surveyed by Bloomberg who say UK GDP probably shrank by…
Nick Clegg's Facebook nightmare
There have been many ironic fates for the lead actors in the Coalition government. For David Cameron, the premier who…
Six times Remainers denied an EU army would happen
One of the points of discussion which dominated British politics in the Brexit era was the possibility of the formation…
The problem with Facebook's 'Supreme Court'
He might now be one of the most powerful men in global media, but I find whenever I see a…
Twelve things we’ve learned from the 2019 election
Britain’s parliamentary democracy is easily mocked: the medievalisms, the men in tights, the ayes to the right. But it has…
Portrait of the Week: the Brexit march, Nick Clegg’s new job and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, found herself in another crisis over Brexit. Backbenchers whispered that 48 letters were being…
Sidney Blumenthal: peddler of tired old clichés about British politics
I remember Sidney Blumenthal from my time in Washington in the late 1980s when I was there as the first…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, soon got used to the surprise of the Conservatives being returned in the general…
Portrait of the week
Home The country went to the polls. David Cameron, the Conservative leader, prepared by going around with his sleeves rolled…
Portrait of the week
Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into…
Nick Clegg’s public-school insult
Married to a public-school man (I almost said boy) for many a long year, I can’t bring myself to disqualify…
He’ll never admit it, but David Cameron is already plotting another deal with Nick Clegg
The Prime Minister could never admit it, but he’s dreaming of – and scheming for – another coalition
Channel 4's The Coalition reviewed: heroically free of cynicism
In a late schedule change, Channel 4’s Coalition was shifted from Thursday to Saturday to make room for Jeremy Paxman…
The art of political biography remains in intensive care if Giles Radice’s latest book is anything to go by, says Simon Heffer
With the odd exception — I think principally of Charles Moore’s life of Margaret Thatcher — the genre of political…
Let Greece leave the eurozone
To listen to Greek government ministers addressing the outside world during their breaks from negotiations with eurozone leaders this week,…
Why the Lib Dems aren’t scared of this election (and why they should be)
One of the most remarkable features of this parliament has been the sangfroid of the Liberal Democrats. Nothing seems to…
How Alex Brooker made political interviews interesting again
The other night on Channel 4, I watched the best political interview I’ve seen all year. It was with Nick…
Everyone says they’re Charlie. In Britain, almost no one is
Je suis Charlie indeed. This is the problem with placards — there is rarely enough room to fit in the caveats,…
The MH17 disaster
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, told Parliament that President Vladimir Putin of Russia should end his country’s support for…
Cameron was right to move Gove
I tried to reach Michael Gove on Tuesday shortly after the news broke that he’d been moved to the Whips’…
Danny Alexander on Scottish independence, income tax, Nick Clegg and George Osborne
Danny Alexander, the coalition’s senior Scot, on cricket,on his battle for Britain and his colleague George Osborne
Could Jeremy Browne be the anti-Nigel Farage?
Conviction politics is back. The two men making the political weather at the moment, Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage, both…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that inheritance tax ‘shouldn’t be paid by people who’ve worked hard and saved…
Portrait of the week
Home In the Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the economy was working but the job…
Super-heads are a super-huge mistake
The system of parachuting top teachers into failing schools seems to have been a recipe for corruption
