David Thomas, Author at Cherwell

Oxford's not racist. It's just lazy, ignorant, and criminally apathetic.

Every attempt to define it may thus far have been a disaster, but Labour just might be onto something...

Much of Gove's agenda is part of a long overdue rescue of British schools. The rest might lead to not so pretty consequences.

Voters don't believe the Nasty Party cares about family. Cameron should be worried.

The Opposition need some policies, or at least a united opposition.

When politicians go rogue, it is their constituents, not the courts, who should throw them out. Give us the power, we'll be only too happy to do so.

Labour have one policy that could start to rebuild their party's waning appeal

The NUS have managed to do more than higher fees ever could to put poorer students off applying to university

Ken Livingstone has shown he is not at home in the Labour Party. Ed Miliband shouldn't let him stay.

The Browne Review turns out to be quite a bit more progressive than we're led to believe.

The working class Tory has been conspicuously absent in recent years. He may soon be about to return.

What does Ed do next?

Time to leave his electors behind

The press is getting worringly close to printing gossip as standard. If they don't change we'll get bored of their crying wolf.

The IFS give the right answer to the wrong question. The Budget might be regressive, but that doesn't make it unfair.

To miss this chance of welfare reform would be a cost far higher then the billions it might appear to be saving

...and stop psycho-analyzing Blair. We had enough of that when he was in power.

Why money should be spent making fewer, not more, university places

David Thomas