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Bill Clinton loved political drama so much he even enjoyed his own defeats, says Toby Harnden, delighting in The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House by Taylor Branch The Clinton Tapes by Taylor Branch For those...
New EU President's Life Motto Is 'Quiet Determination' By Jeroen van der Kris in Brussels Herman Van Rompuy is a practicing Catholic who belongs to the conservative wing of the Flemish Christian Democrat party. Not long after...
The furious wife of a two-timing Tory MP caught up in an expenses scandal said last night: 'It's his problem'. Enlarge Conservative MP David Curry at his home in Arkesden, Essex, he has resigned pending an inquiry into his...
Major's victory in 1992 is the precedent Labour likes to talk about. But it's his defeat five years later that should concern them No British prime minister ever takes his government into the fifth year of a parliament by...
A nakedly political Queen’s Speech marks the start of the election campaign “THERE are times, perhaps once every 30 years, when there is a sea-change in politics,” said the last Labour prime minister to lose a general election....
I wonder if any of the party leaders has booked a long holiday in the sun over Christmas and the New Year. In my view they would deserve one, but I am almost certainly in a tiny minority of about three voters on this issue. In...
Public-service satisfaction guaranteed, or—what, exactly? ALTHOUGH it was introduced long before he left Downing Street, John Major’s “cones hot-line” came to epitomise, in the public imagination, the intellectual exhaustion...
When it comes to “2012,” public opinion seems to range from “it’s awful” to “not-so-bad” to “so-bad-it’s-great.” I consider myself a member of the latter group; 90 minutes of wall-to-wall Earth demolition can’t be all bad....
Published Date: 19 November 2009 DOES Scotland really need to be hosting a Commonwealth Games in 2014? It might seem a pointless question now that we are less than five years away from Glasgow's sporting jamboree – but I...
European top appointments always come down to a show of force between the Big Three, often resulting in a choice for the least undesirable candidate. A dinner party that will decide the course of Europe If Dutch prime minister...
