British politics have for the last thirty years been shaped by Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism and the legacy of Thatcher’s period in office. All of the mainstream politicians who have followed her – John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron at a UK level, and Alex Salmond and his Labour predecessors as First Minister in Scotland – have been influenced by her, and the...

Gordon Brown and David Cameron face pressure today to respond to the left and right wings of their respective parties on taxation policy.

Scottish National party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond says Gordon Brown's suggestion that Team GB enter a football team for London 2012 is a "spectacular own goal".

Considering the speed and severity with which he took Gordon Brown to task on his blog last June for the heinous "crime" of referring to the "Second Parachute Regiment", you would think that Sean Rayment would take special care to ensure the accuracy of his own work. However, in a largely sympathetic piece ... Posted on Defence of the Realm

Considering the speed and severity with which he took Gordon Brown to task on his blog last June for the heinous "crime" of referring to the "Second Parachute Regiment", you would think that Sean Rayment would take special care to ensure the accuracy of his own work. However, in a largely sympathetic piece about Sue Smith and her self-imposed "mission" of suing the MoD over the death of her son Pt...

Fortuitously I read the comments for this post chez Mr Eugenides, otherwise I might have missed this bravura performance by London Mayor Boris Johnson at the post Olympic Games closing ceremony 'handover' celebratory party. Even Gordon Brown seemed to be thoroughly enjoying Boris's seemingly-extemporaneous, but probably carefully-crafted, discourse. I did however see a part of Brown's own

Gordon Brown got back earlier on a cloud of Olympic euphoria. He stayed on at the Royal Suite at Heathrow to join the official welcome committee for Team GB when it arrived an hour after us, and was there as...

Day six of our round-the-world tour - which took in Camp Bastion and Kabul in Afghanistan and the Olympic Games finale in Beijing - and we're flying home. For Gordon Brown, the visit to the Games, where Team GB (the sportsmen and women, as opposed to Gordon's inner circle) achieved the best medals haul for 100 years, was a brief respite from the grim horrors he's facing back home. B...

Conor Foley: The foreign secretary's contradictory statements suggest he is making it up as he goes along. Gordon Brown must sack him

Prime Minister Donald Tusk last week became the first EU leader to declare that he will not be attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games this summer. So what is he expecting from the rest of us – a gold medal? The EU representation at the opening ceremony is going to be patchy: UK’s PM Gordon Brown has declared that he will be going – while Chancellor Angela Merkel has