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John Kampfner

The PM lectures Europe to conceal his lack of vision

With metronomic predictability, David Cameron is paralysed by the issue that all but destroyed his predecessors. This time the question of Britain's role in Europe is not a political game, a subject for the constitutional anoraks. The livelihoods of millions are at stake. Yet the narrative is depressingly the same. Britain stands on the sidelines, carping and snorting, pleading to be involved and yet refusing to engage constructively.

21 November 2011 12:56 PM

The challenge for Cameron after a summer of events

This was one of those summers when party managers did not have to dream up wheezes to keep their leaders in the limelight. From the phone hacking scandal to the run on global stock markets, from riots at home to the victory of the rebels in Libya, this has been one of those Augusts when, to dust off that time-honoured phrase, events intervened.

30 August 2011 11:57 AM

A 'mansion tax' wouldn't just hit the super-rich

It was a statement to gladden the heart. "I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies."

29 March 2011 10:23 AM

This referendum is about a lot more than vote reform

Whenever you think British politics has hit a new low, think again. The advertising campaign launched by the campaign against electoral reform defies the worst expectations. The most sick-making advert is of a baby, tube in nose, with the words: "She needs a new cardiac facility NOT an alternative voting system." Another only slightly less offensive variation has a picture of a soldier alongside the caption: "He needs bulletproof vests NOT..."

23 February 2011 12:39 PM

Now Nick Clegg must spell out what Lib-Dems stand for

One party celebrated. Another held its own. The third was humiliated. The fallout from Oldham East and Saddleworth, a most curious of by-elections, poses as many questions for the parties as answers.

14 January 2011 10:47 AM

The lesson for today is: Don’t underestimate Nick Clegg

From zero to hero, back to zero and now . . . deputy prime minister. Few politicians in the modern era have undergone such extreme turns of fortune as Nick Clegg.

12 May 2010 11:51 AM

Disappointment for Lib Dems, yet a real chance to realign politics for good

A deeply disappointing night for Nick Clegg may, just may, turn out to provide the Liberal Democrats' great opportunity.

07 May 2010 12:08 PM

Darling’s all boxed in – and his party’s lust for power is to blame

HOW THE choreography has changed. In budgets past, Gordon Brown would hover imperiously at the despatch box, firing out statistics that purported to show how well Britain was doing. We were, he would declare each year, the envy of the world.

22 April 2009 09:21 AM