The inside track
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In Inside Track
When discrimination works
- By Martin Bright
- 03 July 2008
Parents of children who are now at private school are already talking of moving them to the local state sixth form
Interview: Ed Balls
- By Martin Bright and Suzanne Moore
- 03 July 2008
With soaring street violence and constant classroom testing, Martin Bright and Suzanne Moore ask the children's secretary, if the next generation is getting a fair deal
What the NHS means to me
- By Alan Johnson
- 03 July 2008
As the Health Service turns 60, Alan Johnson says Nye Bevan's vision continues to inspire him and points out that a decade ago it was talked of as if it was on its knees
Scotland
Brown's Scottish play
- By Iain Macwhirter
- 03 July 2008
For 50 years, Scotland was unshakeably Labour. But a string of party blunders has lost it - and the Union - to the Nationalists
Tactical Briefing
- By Jesse Armstrong
- 03 July 2008
From: The Unit
To: GB
Subject: The speech that must be made
Dancing to the party tune
- By Tara Hamilton-Miller
- 03 July 2008
From GQ Man to knights of the shire, Tories are happy to be seen sipping champagne
Haltemprice And Howden
Brown's Henley Nemesis and the Anti-Messiah Complex
- By Martin Bright
- 27 June 2008
The result of the by-election in Boris Johnson's old seat was no surprise, but the symbolism surrounding it speaks volumes
Gordon Brown
Mr Brown's long year
- By Martin Bright
- 26 June 2008
One survey suggests that "Real New Labour", an eminently moderate group, could well become the dominant faction
Gordon Brown
Don't write off Mr Bean
- By Vincent Cable
- 26 June 2008
Brown has made blunders and suffered bad luck. But if he can show clarity and conviction, the next election could still be competitive
Gordon Brown
How can Brown turn things round?
- 26 June 2008
Six influential politicians and thinkers assess the Prime Minister's chances
Also in Inside Track
Gordon Brown
Tactical Briefing
- By Jesse Armstrong
- 26 June 2008
From: The Unit
To: GB
Subject: Anniversary
Gordon Brown
What voters really want
- By Peter Wilby
- 26 June 2008
Leaders offering old-fashioned state welfare are getting elected everywhere
The key is respect
- By Ed Miliband
- 19 June 2008
The government needs to change the relationship between state and citizen, writes the Minister for the Cabinet Office
David Davis Affair
Tactical Briefing
- By Jesse Armstrong
- 19 June 2008
From: The Unit
To: GB
Subject: Davis/Dolphins
Haltemprice And Howden
Desperado's last stand
- By Tara Hamilton-Miller
- 19 June 2008
David Davis gives his all for a noble cause - and for himself
The whispers
- By Kevin Maguire
- 19 June 2008
Miliboy: boldly going where no MP has gone before - all the gossip from the Westminster Village
David Davis Affair
On parables and principles
- By Martin Bright
- 19 June 2008
Where is the David Davis of the left, prepared to resign and challenge the government's authoritarian agenda?
David Davis Affair
Another George Lansbury?
- By Stephen Brasher
- 12 June 2008
The New Statesman's Stephen Brasher contrasts two very different politicians who both quit parliament to fight a by-election on a matter of principle
David Davis Affair
I Salute David Davis
- By Martin Bright
- 12 June 2008
The Conservative shadow Home Secretary has resigned over the introduction of 42 days without charge
David Davis Affair
Davis quits over 42 days
- By Ben Davies
- 12 June 2008
Top Tory David Davis quits over his opposition to the 42 day detention decision in a major split with party leader David Cameron. Plus Stephen Brasher asks is this another George Lansbury?
Interview: Alistair Darling
- By Martin Bright
- 12 June 2008
Alistair Darling was once the safest pair of hands in the government. A year after becoming Chancellor, our political editor, Martin Bright, asks him where it all went wrong
