Random Views

I spent the first couple of hours after the BBC exit poll for the UK General Election was announced at 10:00 last night doubting its accurac...

Picture the situation. A series of curiously convenient deaths have left you on the threshold of power in your nation. You have only to step...

Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, speaking in London today, called for an end to austerity policies and described t...

Striking words, I felt, at the weekend from Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian : Labour… [looks]… like a team facing an open goal and pois...

There are times when the sheer effrontery of the Cameron government makes it hard to avoid a certain sneaking admiration for its downright s...

Depending on how you measure it, the UK is about eighth or ninth in the world in income per person per year. So it’s quite an indictment th...

Opportunism always seems terribly distasteful. Unfortunately, it’s highly effective. In Britain today we have a government that assured u...

It was a strange old evening, 9 April 1992.  Friends had gathered in our house, clutching bottles of champagne, one of them a magnum, tho...

It’s enthralling to see the increasingly frequent and bad-tempered spats between George Osborne, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, and hi...

It’s seemed to me for a long time that to be successful in government you have to be a skilful politician, to get elected in the first place...