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David Cameron communicates crisply because he knows most people only tune in for a few minutes a day

Britons have wanted a liberal economy under a mildly redistributive state

The Tories’ recent move into a more aggressive posture makes political sense but is dangerous. It complicates their timeless virtue: bovine solidity

George Osborne cast his Conservatives as ‘builders’ at their party conference in Manchester this week

Nothing has brought out the United Kingdom’s talent for half measures like the European project

Since renewing his premiership in May, Cameron has already revised or delayed legislation to satisfy his own dissenting MPs

There’s no universal law that a generation must be more prosperous than the last

The British PM shows that it does not take a philosophy to change a country, just the knack of responding dynamically to circumstances

British politics has become a great exercise in pretending otherwise

The looming election is suppressing dissent and still there are defections

When people accuse British Prime Minister David Cameron of disengaging from the world, they mean he is engaging in a way they do not like

Continuing his coalition with the Lib Dems is messy but he will govern as the helpless chattel of his own party’s right wing