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David Cameron’s polished charm conceals political concessions, and weakness
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on Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 at 08:54 AM
David Cameron has been on the wireless this morning. Three thoughts: 1. Mr Cameron has offered Westminster a gentle reminder that whatever his limitation as either political strategist or tactician, hes really a very good media spokesman. Its hard to think of anyone else in the game today who could offer such polish and self-assurance [...]Congratulations, gay marriage campaigners – you have completely destroyed the meaning of social progress
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on Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 at 08:32 AM
I know the only thing youre allowed to say about gay marriage is Yay! and that if you say anything else youre a weirdo hateful bigot. But permit to make just one non-yay-based observation about it. Which is this: gay marriage has utterly transformed, for the worse, the meaning of social progress. Throughout modern history, [...]David Cameron has shown why he will fight the next election as Tory leader, and why he will probably win
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on Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 at 08:05 AM
David Cameron has just completed an interview on the Today programme in which he demonstrated why despite the swivel-eyed lunacy of the past week he is likely to still be Prime Minister after 2015. He was proud, he said, of his decision to push forward with gay marriage. Young gay boys (and girls) [...]The EU talks of limiting tax avoidance, but its true agenda is tax harmonisation
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on Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 at 05:49 AM
In a few hours time, MEPs will divide on a motion that was supposed to be about deterring aggressive tax avoidance, but is really about tax harmonisation. The British Governments reasonable proposals for better exchange of information on what multi-nationals are paying proposals that were supposed to be global rather than European in their [...]House prices quadrupled during the typical mortgage term
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on Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 at 05:45 AM
House prices quadupled during the last quarter century and soared by more than 60pc in real terms after inflation is taken into account. No wonder bricks and mortar remain the biggest asset owned by many members of my generation. But home ownership has fallen by almost a tenth since it peaked more than a decade [...]It’s time to tackle Britain’s welfare ghettoes
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on Tuesday May 21st, 2013 at 05:30 PM
Any policy which will simplify our complex benefit system and ensure that employment pays more than welfare dependency is a good one. Signed On, Written Off, a new report published by The Centre for Social Justice think-tank, revealed that across Britain there are welfare ghettoes where more than half the working-age residents depend on out-of-work [...]Evening Briefing: Political Casualties
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on Tuesday May 21st, 2013 at 05:18 PM
The following is from our new briefing email, available to anyone who wants it. Just email james.kirkup@telegraph.co.uk with signup in the subject line to be added to our mailing list. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>The day today>> -Political casualty 1 Sir David Nicholson succumbed to the inevitable and announced that he will step down as Chief Executive of [...]Tories hold talks to plan legislation if Nick Clegg is forced out and they go it alone
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on Tuesday May 21st, 2013 at 02:40 PM
Nick Clegg is giving a speech tomorrow in which we gather he will address the question of the Coalitions ability to go the distance to 2015. I suspect he will use it to assert his commitment to making it work, whatever stresses the Tories might place on it. Events of recent weeks have cast a [...]
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