MIP Perspectives
Lack of tax breaks for married couples shows Lib Dems are still throwing their scanty weight around
Conservative MPs outnumber their Lib Dem counterparts by a factor of six to one, their poll ratings are about five times higher and on leadership David Cameron is streets ahead. - 13 Feb 2012
Class war warrior Vince Cable steps into Huhne’s shoes with his assault on university independence
Chris Huhne's resignation from the Coalition Cabinet has created a vacancy - for the Lib Dem minister who most openly confronts and enrages his Conservative colleagues. - 8 Feb 2012
Sarko’s 121 cars show why we don’t want a French-style privacy law
He spends £10,000 a day on food and £200,000 a year on flowers; has 121 cars in his garage with insurance costs of £100,000 and fuel bills of £275,000 a year - 7 Feb 2012
India is right. They don’t need or want our aid.
No good deed ever goes unpunished. That must be the thought flitting through the mind of International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell as he contemplates Sunday's front pages - 5 Feb 2012
Memo to Ed Miliband: Listen to your brother on benefits
Miliband is right. The only trouble for Labour is that it is David not Ed who is charting the path to a revival for his troubled party. - 2 Feb 2012
Dave’s day of reckoning over Europe comes ever closer
Europe's leaders have often been accused of kicking the can down the road as they have tried but failed to find a lasting solution to the crisis in the Eurozone - 1 Feb 2012
Nick Clegg is as believable on tax cuts as he was on tuition fees
The louder Nick Clegg talks about tax cuts, the faster I count my spoons - 27 Jan 2012
From hero to zero. That’s the risk for Cameron as he seeks to strong arm Tory MPs into euro bailout
David Cameron is facing another big backbench Tory rebellion over Europe - and this time he could actually lose the vote in the House of Commons - 19 Jan 2012
Labour’s two Eds are still in denial about the past and the future
Are two Eds better than one when it comes to rescuing the British economy? Not on the strength of their weekend contribution to the debate. - 16 Jan 2012
The break up of the UK is a matter for all of us Mr Salmond. Not just the Scots.
The prospect of a referendum on Scottish independence raises more questions than answers. - 11 Jan 2012
Top Five Articles
TUC anti cuts survey says nothing new
TUC survey attacking Big Society is not only misleading but complete and utter rubbish - 2 Aug 2011
When a nudge becomes a shove
The Coalition Agreement stated that “Our Government will be a much smarter one, shunning the bureaucratic levers of the past and finding intelligent ways to encourage, support and enable people to make better choices for themselves.” - 10 Mar 2011
Ed Miliband is playing a dangerous party game on AV
There has been much concentration on the splits within the Coalition of late, mainly over the differing views of the Conservatives and Lib Dems on the Alternative Vote, but Labour are more split than the Coalition. - 20 Apr 2011
Arab uprisings expose the moral gymnastics of the Left
Only the liberal Left can combine hypocrisy, smugness and intellectual confusion in equal measure at much the same time. - 22 Feb 2011
Ed Miliband: the real loser from the AV vote
A No vote is an earthquake for the Coalition government. So is Ed Miliband the winner whatever the score? - 4 May 2011
