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Bruce Anderson

Bruce Anderson: We need constitutional change – but now is not the time to do it

The solution to improve the quality of government is for government to do less

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Bruce Anderson: Brown clings on – dithering, bloodied, but not yet broken

Monday, 8 June 2009

Gordon Brown can't make a decision – but he won't let others decide either

Bruce Anderson: You can't reform the European constitution without a ballot

Monday, 1 June 2009

And anyone who does believe in democracy should demand an end to party list elections

Bruce Anderson: The system isn't that broke - it only needs a slight fixing

Monday, 25 May 2009

An eruption of Poujadist anger will not improve our system of government

Bruce Anderson: Face the facts... Most MPs are decent people, not crooks

Monday, 18 May 2009

Many of these good men and women find themselves hideously embarrassed, often unfairly so

Bruce Anderson: Brown's best refuge now is a bipartisan solution

Monday, 11 May 2009

If No 10 would display some goodwill, it might still be possible to produce some interim measures

Did Margaret Thatcher really believe that there was no such thing as society? No, she did not

Thatcher: Cometh the hour, cometh the woman

Monday, 4 May 2009

Bruce Anderson: Thirty years after Thatcher set out to change Britain, her greatness should not be in dispute.

Bruce Anderson: Cameron must face down the voters when they are wrong

Monday, 27 April 2009

He is going to have to refight some of the battles which Maggie seemed to have won

PM's troubles don't mean Tories can relax

Monday, 20 April 2009

Bruce Anderson: With a programme for government, David Cameron can restore Parliament's reputation

Bruce Anderson: A crisis of law, liberty and order

Monday, 13 April 2009

Visitors from Pakistan need to be closely, though courteously, regulated

Bruce Anderson: Brown and Cameron have a tricky task after the G20

Monday, 6 April 2009

One of the more horrifying aspects of recent events was the realisation that the balance sheets of some major financial institutions were wholly misleading. As Chris Patten puts it in his recent book, What Next?, one week, a single mother in St Louis takes out a mortgage. The next week, the mortgage is a triple-a rated security in London. The week after that, it is a supposedly reliable asset in a German municipality's pension fund.

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