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By seizing the Crimea, Russia has threatened the international community
AARON ELLIS As the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, many in the West showed an embarrassing lack of character. Seemingly contemptuous of its international ob...
We need to think bolder if we are to rebalance the UK economy
JACK HANDS The recent report by the Centre for Cities was a startling yet perhaps unsurprising indictment of the UK economy in 2014. London dominates Britain more than at any other time in our...
Conservatives have lost their way in the Europe debate
JAMES WILLBY The debate on Europe within the Conservative Party is going from bad to worse. Beginning with the Business Secretary comparing current Conservative rhetoric to the speeches of Eno...
Diplomacy has achieved more in Syria than bombing would have done
AARON ELLIS Pundits across the political spectrum have claimed recently that had MPs supported military action in Syria last summer, the world might just have been a better place today. Yet the...
UKIP double-bluff leaves government floundering on Syria refugees
PAUL HOSKINS The moment UKIP’s Nigel Farage called for Syrian refugees to be allowed into the UK, it became an inevitability, not because he waved his magic fairy wand but because he drew at...
Let's give two cheers to tolerance in 2014
EDDIE REEVES With Christmas at a close, these dreich early days in January are when we Brits hunker down and navel-gaze. As we wrestle with inadequacies both personal and professional and str...
The top five take-aways from 2013
RYAN GRAY Below are five things to consider when evaluating 2013. 1. THE GENDER PAY GAP IS ALMOST SOLVED. The findings are here . And what they show is disparities in gender pay are becomin...
"Mission accomplished" in Afghanistan? For the Tory Party, yes.
AARON ELLIS On Monday, the Prime Minister declared that Britain had accomplished its mission in Afghanistan. A “basic level of security” had been achieved there meaning our troops could co...
Conservative orthodoxy on picking business 'winners' must change
JAMES WILLBY I’ve often listened incredulously to otherwise sensible Conservatives opposing the idea that Government should pick winners. The topic seems to cause consternation in many right-...
Let's be honest, quitting the EU would harm our foreign policy
AARON ELLIS Speaking at Chatham House the other day, Senator Marco Rubio declared that it ought to be up to Britain to decide its relationship with the European Union regardless of transatlant...
The Conservative Party ought to be proud of the Wharton Bill
GARETH MILNER In years to come people may ask where you were on Friday the 29th of November 2013. Regardless of where you were, I can tell you what one man was up to: James Wharton MP was at th...
France has an alternative to Hollande-ism, but are the French ready for it?
EDDIE REEVES Anyone noticed how svelte Jean-François Copé is looking? Sporting the silhouette élancée of a slippery French centre in a Six Nations nailbiter, the UMP Leader and Mayor of ...
Europe is the 'elephant in the room' in our energy debate
LUKE MAJOR Energy has dominated politics for the last few months and the Prime Minister hopes to counter Ed Miliband’s price freeze pledge by rolling back the green levies that contribute t...
Egremont Writing Competition: David Cameron is like Neville Chamberlain
Several weeks ago, Egremont launched its first writing competition challenging readers to write an article comparing David Cameron to a past Tory leader other than either Edward Heath or Margaret...
'One Nation Labour' is an oxymoron
JONATHAN WADDELL > Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; > who are ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts and feelings, as > if they we...
A politico with some popular music tastes, but too busy for anything classical? Ed showed us the true Miliband on Sunday
JACK BLACKBURN Desert Island Discs can do many things. It can be a fascinating insight into music you have never heard, or the story of life you otherwise might not have known – but one thing...
We need to realise the economic potential of our other major cities
ANDREW THORPE-APPS The announcement that Hull will be the City of Culture 2017 was met with a few chides and sniggers in the media. Whatever its cultural pedigree, Hull is a city tarnished by ...
A housing boom could lose the Conservatives as many votes as it wins
LUKE MAJOR Britain’s rural landscape is under attack in the name of economic growth – despite David Cameron’s promise to lead the “greenest government ever.” The Prime Minister believ...
Why it might not be so grim Up North for the Conservatives
GARETH MILNER Depending on who you question, there could be any number of reasons as to why the Conservatives are perceived to perform poorly in the north of England. Answers may range from his...
CCHQ must find a new online home for the deleted speeches; they're invaluable
AARON ELLIS Several years ago I started working on an article about Afghanistan and the Conservatives, only the research ballooned to such an extent that what was supposed to be a relatively sh...