The bulk of left-liberal opinion (and some libertarian right viewpoints) both in this country and internationally, is that the current laws on drugs are ineffectual in terms of combating drug use. They are also seen as quite harmful in needlessly criminalising whole groups of people, particularly those from deprived backgrounds whose prospects (and addiction) are […]

Reports of the imminent demise of the Labour Party have been greatly exaggerated. Virtually up until polling day on the 6th May, the majority of commentators had Labour staring a worst defeat than that under Michael Foot in 1983. Despite a revived Liberal-Democrat threat and a washed out, tired looking PM compounded by the disaster […]

There is one small consolation for Gordon Brown if, as is now widely predicted, he is no longer Prime Minister after May 6th. This comes in the form of the widely reported remarks attributed to the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, that whoever wins the next election will be “stuffed” by the […]