David cameron
Cameron copies neither Blair nor Thatcher, but Major and Wilson
Nigel Lawson’s advice to David Cameron came too late. In an interview with Steve Richards, my esteemed colleague, on BBC Radio 4 The Week In Westminster, Lord Lawson advised the Prime Minister to model himself on Margaret Thatcher rather than Tony Blair. He said: “I do think he has a lot to learn from her.”
Unfortunately, Cameron, [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 21 July 2012 at 4:36 pm
Omar Suleiman, Paul Lawrie, Ray J, The Dark Knight Rises
A look at the trending topics on social networking sites and search engines today, to see what we’re interested in, and why.
By Ellen E Jones | Notebook | Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 11:21 am
“Fresh consent for a fresh settlement”
Yesterday was a good day for the House of Commons, if you think it is important that members of the Government should spend a lot of time in the Chamber being accountable to our elected representatives. The Prime Minister on Europe and then the Chancellor on the interest-rate-fixing scandal answered questions at the despatch box [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 3 July 2012 at 3:16 pm
The EU can amplify our human rights pledge
“Human rights and democracy are inextricably connected. Only in a democracy can individuals fully realize their human rights; only when human rights are respected can democracy flourish.”
By Jeremy Browne and Edward McMillan-Scott | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 28 June 2012 at 9:58 am
Moral judgements have no place in the benefits system
If there’s one thing that David Cameron is clear about, it’s that he wants us all to do the ‘Right Thing,’ a phrase that popped up no less than seven times in his deeply moralising speech about the benefits system earlier this week.
By Ruth Whippman | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 28 June 2012 at 2:00 am
The Debate: Do we have a culture of entitlement?
The Prime Minister feels we have a “culture of entitlement” when it comes to welfare, and polling shows huge public support for a crackdown on benefit payments. But do many young people leave school expecting to be looked after financially? Do the wealthy elite expect to rule?
By Laura Davis | Eagle Eye, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 9:54 am
Not another Live Aid
Next year will be crucial for the UK’s international development policy. With the UK in the G8 chair and David Cameron co-chairing a UN committee that will oversee the setting of new global development goals, the UK once again has an opportunity to shape international action against poverty.
By Sarah Mulley | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 26 June 2012 at 12:00 am
Young people are sick of being pushed around
There is a story retold by historian, Robert Darnton, about a series of ritualistic murders of cats in the printers’ district of pre-revolutionary Paris that shocked and horrified its residents. It turned out that the cats were killed by the apprentices as revenge for the ill treatment, low pay and little chance of career advancement at the hands of their masters and their masters’ wives.
By Caroline Mortimer | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 25 June 2012 at 3:05 pm
Bullingdon Club: The politics of Posh
In the first of a series of blogs this week looking at the politics of class, Alastair Campbell discusses Laura Wade’s Posh. The play, which, if any comparisons with the notoriously elite Bullingdon Club are drawn (of which Conservative trio David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson were all members) opens a more disturbing concern than our political leaders not knowing the price of milk. Last year the Prime Minister denied that there were similarities between the club he was famously a member of, and the destructive behaviour witnessed in the summer riots.
By Alastair Campbell | Eagle Eye, Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 25 June 2012 at 12:40 am
A quarter of Sunday Times rich list are Tory Party donors
The trade union subscription to the Labour Party for an individual member is around three pounds a year, which it is possible to opt out of and which is less than half the cost of a book of First Class stamps.
By James Bloodworth | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 14 June 2012 at 11:41 am
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