The authors of Nudge, the handbook of "libertarian paternalism" which has so influenced Dave and his friends, report on a new initiative designed to streamline decisionmaking at Los Angeles City Council: The chamber’s voting software is set to automatically register each of the 15 lawmakers as a “yes” unless members deliberately press a button to vote “no.” The “yes” votes then flash...

So what if Samantha Cameron has voted Labour in the past? When I saw this story flash up on the wires last night, I wondered what the big deal was. But to splash the Mail on Sunday on it? Everyone knows that she is not the stereotypical Tory wife: she has a tattoo on her ankle, she spent her student years shooting pool and hanging out with musicians. Then she married a politician. It happens. But ...

Something terrible is happening to young women. Despite the dazzling gains made for bourgeois white women by reformist feminism, we’re….well, we’re turning into sluts. Look around you: the streets are littered with half-naked young hussies vomiting their A-levels into spillovers with their skirts hoiked round their waists. At the merest flash of a web-camera, young

Today’s YouGov poll in the Sunday Times suggests the Tory lead over Labour has amost disappeared, and that Labour may even end up the largest party after the general election (which would reflect the exclusive LDV election prediction published here at the start of February). Nor is today’s poll a flash-in-the-pan. None of the last

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Readers of the magazine will be familiar with Michael Heath's series of 'Flash Gordon' cartoons, based on the life and sulks of our glorious Prime Minister.  Well, now it's got a successor – 'Dave' – which, naturally enough, focuses on the Tory leader and would-be PM, Mr Cameron.  Here's the first of them, from this week's issue, for th...

Any British citizen who bases his or her vote on the "flash" official national income figures showing that output rose by 0.1 per cent in the final quarter of 2009 ought to be disenfranchised, writes Samuel Brittan

In the three months since I last blogged at length about the Liberal Democrat general election manifesto process, Danny Alexander (chair of the Manifesto Working Group) has won widespread praise for restoring a sense of peace, sense and order after the events around the party’s autumn conference. On the two major flash points – mansion tax

Enterprising Labour members Grace Fletcher-Hackwood and Kevin Peel are today launching ‘#mobmonday’, a new online initiative to connect people from across Britain to help Labour in key marginal constituencies. Without leaving the comfort of their own home, campaigners will be using Labour’s virtual phone bank to call voters in Bury North, where the young PPC

Nato chief Anders Rasmussen says more troops are needed to bolster military efforts warning if international forces were to leave "alQaeda would be back in a flash".