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
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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An i-Pod will beat i-slamism in the end
• Mary Dejevsky: Critics of Barack Obama's foreign policy need to get real
At this more rarefied end of the policy spectrum he is at his impressive best
• Mark Steel: Why not hold all trials in private?
They'd have put Cherie Blair on the inquiry, only she'd have charged a fee
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