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Cameron: On The Wrong Band Wagon

21Aug08

My first ever blog – the notion that inspired me to start publishing political musings – was based around the argument that Cameron’s best shot at convincing us Brits he has something fresh to offer would be to align himself with Barack Obama. I noted that by doing so, Cameron could harness the growing momentum [...]


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Policy Exchange: A think tank that should do some more thinking

13Aug08

When it’s your job to sit around and dream up inventive policies to help northern economies, you think you’d manage to come up with something a little better than ‘abandon ship’.
Not if you work for David Cameron’s (old) favourite think tank Policy Exchange. The charity (thank god they don’t make money for this kind [...]


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Fraser Nelson: The last of the hyperbolic bloggers

06Aug08

Fraser Nelson’s Spectator blog is one I rarely miss. For all the wrong reasons. Previously he has championed Tory MP Liam Fox’s boast that he didn’t come into power to “run public services better than the socialists” and today he starts his entry with ‘There’s Nothing to Say Labour Will Ever Win Power Again‘.
While technically, [...]


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Cameron at the epicentre of bike-theft scandal

24Jul08

Really, there isn’t much intelligent analysis that can be wrung out of this story. But I decided to write about it because it is bloody funny.
Yesterday, the esteemed Tory leader was merrily cycling home when he decided to stop off at a shop on Portobello Road to pick up some nibbles for supper. His first [...]


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