Freemania

This blog is ten years old today, which seems a good occasion to announce its death. This will come as no surprise to regular readers, wh...

My vote is very nearly worthless. So is yours. And that’s a good thing. The idea that a single person is likely to ‘make a difference’ ...

Scene 1 OSBORNE: Hello, Europe. EUROPE: Hello, Mr Osborne. OSBORNE: You know that recalculation of the national contribut...

If the public find Ed Miliband so unimpressive, why is his party ahead in the polls? This question, pondered by Anthony Wells among other...

I’m mostly English but part Welsh and part Scottish, and I don’t want my country to die. If you leave, that will cost me part of my soul. ...

It’s a curious fact that the invention of the time machine was a feat not just of science but of good British manners. For many years, ...

Like George Osborne, I’m no economist. But I do know that a transaction has two sides: for every buyer there is a seller. And if I decided...

Robert Ford, Will Jennings and Mark Pickup discuss the habit of drawing analogies between the next election and previous ones. They menti...

The UK government’s legal position on Syria say s: If action in the Security Council is blocked, the UK would still be permit...