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  • Is it okay to hate Tim Leunig?

    Guardian Readers burn Tim Leunig in effigy. Press, politico and blog reaction to the Policy Exchange’s Cities Unlimited report has been quite extraordinary. The Guardian today was particularly wretched, producing a big special article extolling the North (if you really think it’s so great, why did you leave Manchester then?) and quoting David Cameron extensively…

  • WagCameron

    I’m just not sure these new Tory banner ads really project the image of a modern, inclusive, liberal Conservative party…

  • If Chichester and Conway, why not Gray?

    Sorry to keep banging on about this, but why is James Gray still a Conservative MP given the firm line that Cameron has taken regarding Giles Chichester and Derek Conway? Perhaps one of my Conservative readers would care to explain it?

  • 42, Northern Ireland and Cameron’s non-leadership

    Is it me or is there a link between the government’s (possibly premature, possibly not) triumphalism about winning round the Labour rebels over the Terrorism Bill and the latest political crisis in Northern Ireland? For weeks now, it has been well known that the Brown government has been courting the DUP with a view to…

  • Cameron and Johnson timed the Venezuela announcement for after the Crewe by-election

    At a stroke, Boris Johnson has undermined the capital the Conservatives have made out of the 10p income tax fiasco. It isn’t that the cheap oil deal with Venezuela was defensible – it wasn’t. It was this sort of tokenism that disqualified Livingstone from office in the eyes of most Londoners. But no-one begrudged low…