Hillary and Obama’s biofuels policy driving America down the wrong road

So Hillary has had it. Obama is the de facto Democratic nominee. And what a depressing spectacle the whole thing has been – and I’m not talking about the mutual slagging-off contest. I’m talking the policy – such as it was.
At the first electoral test, the Iowa caucuses, both candidates came out strongly in support [...]

Two nice, young men…

Thirteen years ago, a nice, young(ish) man spent a cheery Bank Holiday weekend grinning over the worst local election results in Tory history. Two years later, he was running the “new, young country” of his dreams.
That it all went so horribly wrong for Tony Blair (politically, at least, for financially he seems to have cleaned [...]

Brown is Blair without the charm – and there ain’t much else left

Eight short months ago, Gordon Brown was surfing the high breakers of British politics like Patrick Swayzee in Point Break. The great and the grim of the business world lined up with the great and the gross of the chateratti to enter his big ministerial tent – Digby Jones and Julia Neuberger spring to mind. [...]

Imagine Davies, Bercow and Mercer’s Sunday breakfast

As Quentin Davies, John Bercow and Patrick Mercer MPs fumble, bleary-eyed for the Sunday morning box of Fruit n’ Fibre this morning, they may be reflecting painfully on the issue of timing. Opportunism fine, guys. But get the timing right, yeah? 
Phillip Oppenheim

Reasons to vote for and against Bojo, Ken – and the other guy

It says something about the people’s confidence in the body politic that we have a mayoral election for one of the world’s great cities, with two over-the-top celeb-politicians and a gay ex-police chief - and yet the public’s interest hovers somewhere below the result of The Apprentice.
In my travels in the capital I have seen [...]