News from the New Party

The Brown inheritance: Britain under attack
British foreign policy must remain focused and determined: idealistic in terms of the need to defend and extend freedom and democracy; realistic in terms of the costs and benefits of intervention, as against failing to intervene.

The Blair Legacy III - The International Scene
In a less turbulent era Blair might have been more universally appreciated, but that should not detract from what he has done

The Blair Legacy II - The Domestic Agenda
The promise of reform never materialised under Blair. He ceded too much influence to Gordon Brown.

The Blair Legacy I - The Labour Party
Did Blair really change the Labour party?

Elected mayors and term limits
Elected mayors stick out like a constitutional sore thumb.

Liberal Democrats and the art of cabinet making
Lord Ashdown has better things to do than serve as a trophy in Gordon Brown's cabinet.

Sir Salman Rushdie
As Salman Rushdie's honour is clearly merited, for it to be withheld on the grounds of political cowardice would be invidious indeed.

Politics without principle
We do not need bandwagon jumpers and dedicated followers of fashion. David Cameron is failing the test.

Impartiality and the BBC
The BBC report on its own impartiality demonstrates only that it has failed to understand the problem.

Ming the Marxist
The Liberal Democrats' new housing proposals are anything but liberal.

Palestinians killing each other: Israel blamed
The responsibility for Palestinian violence lies with Palestinians.

Hari's hysteria
Johann Hari has a plan to save us all.

State funded parties: a threat to democracy
The notion of state funding of political parties is ill-conceived and damaging.

Totalitarian environmentalism
Vaclav Klaus compares modern environmentalism to communist oppression.

Hitchens vs Hitchens vs God
The Hitchens brothers are at odds on the subject of religion.

Antisemitism in the UK: no shame, no fear
Antisemitism in the UK is increasingly brazen.

A new Cold War?
A new row between Russia and the United States threatens a new Cold War.

The assassination of Graham Brady
An intelligent and reasonably articulate front bencher (by the unexacting standards of the modern Conservative Party, at any rate) has been sacrificed for one reason only: pour encourager les autres.