Nick Palmer ponders the politics of the AV referendum
Let’s suppose that the coalition holds for the next couple of years at least. If so, we can assume that the LibDems will insist on the referendum on the alternative vote without delaying it for years....
View ArticleNick Palmer says the sacred cow of income tax may be unwell
One of the curious features of being a Labour MP in the last three elections was that we would often wake up and find out from the newspapers that we were irrevocably committed to something that we had...
View ArticleAs the Tories go to war on the public sector, Nick Palmer asks where does...
As covering fire for its cuts, the coalition is deliberately whipping up division between public and private sector workers (and between both of these and people on benefits). The Mail and the Express...
View ArticleKen Clarke’s not wrong on prisons; he just doesn’t mean it, says Nick Palmer
The response to Ken Clarke’s recent speech has been bemusement all round, and no doubt the old stager likes it that way. The right has always argued for locking more people up, led by the tabloids and...
View ArticleNick Palmer wants to avoid the traps on animal cruelty
One of the traps for the new Labour leadership is the notion that politics in Britain today is entirely about deficit reduction. How to do it? How fast? How much? Yes, we need to have an intelligent...
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