In the wake of Boris Johnson's train wreck interview on the Andrew Marr Show, much has been said about both Boris' future and the rights and wrongs of Eddie Mair's questioning style. But I think the major issue thrown up by the interview has yet to be discussed: whether or...

Trawling through the immense amount of polling data that has emerged from last week's US presidential election, the figures that jumped out at me were around those for whom managing the growing American debt problem was a priority. In exit polls, those who were asked what they thought was the...

I recall Nick Cohen saying, around the time that the Lib-Con Coalition was formed, that there was a sharp division in this country between left and right. He defined people on the left as those who blamed the bankers for the financial crash and people on the right as those...