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Day: January 18, 2012

  • Why Charlotte Henry’s purity test of “real” liberalism is misguided

    Charlotte Henry has a curious article on the Total Politics blog, suggesting that Clegg’s speech on a more participatory form of industrial democracy will help us to seperate the “real liberals” from the “SDP-statist-sandal wearers”. There are several problems with this diagnosis. For one thing, the famed “sandal wearers” and the SDP members are very…

  • The Unions are “too big to bail”

    Even by Ed Balls’ standards, the mess he has got himself into explaining Labour’s economic policy really is quite spectacular. As far as I understand it, Labour’s policy hasn’t actually changed. They are opposed to the way the government is tackling deficit reduction but accept they are unlikely to be able to reverse all the…