What 'Smeargate' tells us about media news reporting
The last couple of days have seen a flurry of new, post-Easter weekend polls. As LDV’s regular readers will know, we don’t cover individual polls, preferring to round them up on a monthly basis rather...
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Was 6th October the day it started going awry for the Tories?
The opinion polls are up-and-down day-in-day-out at the moment, making it almost impossible to say with any confidence whether we are firmly in hung parliament territory, or whether the most likely...
View ArticleFT’s Philip Stephens attacks “sainted” Vince – here’s my reply
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View ArticleGordon Brown’s election pledge: I will not make the tax system fairer
Gordon Brown has today announced one of his election pledges: Labour has no plans to make our tax system fairer. Or has he put it: Labour will hold the basic income tax rate at 20 pence in the pound....
View ArticleOf future coalitions and political alignments
Three quick links to must-read articles this past week, all with compelling arguments to make: The Cameroons already thinking the unthinkable (Bagehot, The Economist) Tory MP Nick Boles’ naively...
View ArticleThe Coalition’s Political Plan B, Mrs T, and TINA: what does this spell out...
The political aftershock of George Osborne’s autumn statement is just beginning to sink in: the Coalition’s 5-year austerity programme, designed to end in 2015 by the time of the next general election,...
View Article“An inept negotiating strategy placed in the hands of an inexperienced prime...
“An avoidable disaster”: that is the verdict of the Financial Times’s Philip Stephens in a must-read article examining what went on behind the scenes of the Coalition’s strategy for approaching last...
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