October 2011
Osborne: Speaking truth to wealth and power? Really?
George Osborne vowed “to speak truth to power and wealth” at the Tory party conference this week - but dare he speak economic truth to the rest of us?
Cameron the global statesman contrasts with Miliband’s wholly domestic speech
Having been wholly omitted from Ed Miliband's leader’s speech last week, David Cameron put foreign affairs at the front of his conference speech today.
Cameron’s recycled rhetoric on benefit claimants
Reports the government will tighten up benefit rules to make people do more to look for work recycle previous Labour policy and miss the point, writes Stephen Evans.
The anti-human rights obsession of Theresa and the Tories
Xenophobia is deep in the Tory heart, fuelling their anti-human rights obsession, writes former Solicitor General Vera Baird QC.
Cameron’s talk won’t solve the pensions crisis
Barbara Bates talks about her fears over pensions, explaining how David Cameron, once again, just doesn’t get it.
UK growth down as IMF warn deficit reduction should not be at the expense of growth
The UK economy barely grew in the second quarter of 2011, GDP up just 0.1 per cent, as the IMF said deficit reduction should not be at the expense of growth.