Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England

Selected writings from one of the most important commentators of our generation covering the wreckage of Labour’s 10 year love affair with the Right

BY THE SUMMER of 2007, Britain was close to crashing. A few onlookers realised the danger, but Britain's political leaders were not among them. Politicians and civil servants boasted that the City's economy was booming because of their 'light-touch regulation' of workers in financial services whose number included potential frauds. Curiously, ...