A year of extraordinary votes
Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage have seized the chance. Both are charismatic, cheeky-chappy personalities and outsider politicians who’ve brilliantly exploited public disgust with old politics.
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Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage have seized the chance. Both are charismatic, cheeky-chappy personalities and outsider politicians who’ve brilliantly exploited public disgust with old politics.
The term “Establishment” describes the network of official and social relations within which power is exercised. Owen Jones asks if something that reflects huge social inequalities can continue.
Denis MacShane, the former MP who was jailed over bogus expenses, has written his memoir about his experience. He speaks to Cathy Newman about life behind bars, and whether he is contrite.
George Osborne’s response to news that Britain has recovered all the ground lost in the recession of 2008-09 speaks volumes of a government that believes it can win the election.
In order to tell the truth about the world of tabloid editors and their political friends, you have to depict a world with no light or saving human virtues.
Prime Minister David Cameron condemns as “completely unacceptable” Tory MP Michael Fabricant’s tweet that he would punch commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown “in the throat” after watching her on TV.
Later today, in the town square in Newark, I have an appointment with a gentleman who has promised me that I can rap him over the head with a rolled-up newspaper (a la Godfrey Bloom).
The government will give voters the power to terminate MPs who misbehave for the first time. But critics have called it a “stitch-up” and a “con”.
A new and rather late recruit to the tide of anti-politics joined the baying mob this morning.
Most Ukip voters feel ignored by politicians and are nostalgic for the 1980s and early 90s, a period most of them believe was a better one in which to bring up children, a poll shows.
Although the media did not seem able to land a finger on Ukip leader Nigel Farage in the run-up to Thursday’s poll, it could be the “none of the above” faction that comes out on top.
As the Ukip leader tries to calm the backlash over his comments, Channel 4 News readers give their verdict on who they would prefer as a neighbour: Nigel Farage or “a group of Romanian men”.
In an interview where the Ukip leader says his wife’s German is fine (because she doesn’t speak it on trains), the party’s spokesman is finally forced to step in when Farage is grilled on expenses.
What do mums think about politicians? Not much, Cathy Newman finds, and with 75 per cent of the House of Commons male – that doesn’t look likely to change soon.
The Co-op Group board members are “still stuck in denial” over its failings, former City minister Lord Myners says in a review published on Wednesday.