The commentators                    01-05-15

...on the general election

Night is drawing in on Labour’s fortunes and the only feasible victory left is a cramped one. Even if that transpires, this is a frightening victory, for the Labour party rather than the country, which has little to fear. The punishment Labour could receive for its awful effort might be a victory that struggles to attain legitimacy and leads to a second election against a new Tory leader. At that point, their number really is up.
- Philip Collins, The Times
The fog of electoral battle is not an easy place to think clearly about strategy. But there is a lack of clear thinking about how the hung parliament that may be elected next week would work. Perhaps that explains why, even in politics, the arts can sometimes illuminate the big point in a way that reality fails to do.
- Martin Kettle, The Guardian
Natalie Nougayrede
 Miliband has sent out a signal that he will work “with allies, but not for them”, and focus on Europe. Distancing himself from Tony Blair’s poodle attitude towards George Bush is understandable, but it is a posture, not a comprehensive statement on transatlantic relations in the 21st century. Europe’s core nations will struggle to weigh in on anything without first answering that question – because their power has become so relative. It is a lesson learned in Paris, but it is still pending in London.
- Natalie Nougayrède, The Guardian
Many can, in all honesty, afford the tax rises that Labour would impose. The brunt of the damage that Ed Miliband can do would be borne by those least able to afford it. And this is the depressing truth about this election: there is not much, even now, to make anyone expect a Tory victory. And even less to make anyone imagine that a Labour government would be anything other than a disaster.
- Fraser Nelson, Daily Telegraph
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When the Daily Star drops the bikini-clad women and the Express the quack cures in recognition of the importance of the Nepal earthquake and avalanche, why is the Daily Telegraph filling its splash space with propaganda and reducing the news to a puff? This isn't journalism.

Comment archive, 2015

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March 26 UK politics
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March 13 UK politics
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March 11 UK politics
March 10 UK politics
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Rifkind and Straw
February 27 UK politics
February 26 Minor party leaders
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February 24 Rifkind and Straw
February 23 World affairs
Merkel and Putin
February 13 UK politics
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February 9 Politics
Alexis Tsipras
January 30 Rape law
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January 16 World politics
January 15 Election debates
January 14 Charlie Hebdo
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March 20 UK politics
March 19 The Budget
March 18 UK politics
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March 6 Scotland and the election
March 5 Isis
March 4 UK politics
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January 7 UK politics
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