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Britain needs another grand vision tailored to what it can afford

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The problem confronting the country is a reluctance to question the postwar settlement

Dec 5, 2012

Chancellor makes best of bad job

There may be worse to come but Labour has been left scratching its head

Dec 5, 2012

Candid Osborne avoids political risk

Chancellor needed an accident-free Autumn Statement

Dec 3, 2012

British are bearing austerity – for now

Public resigned to services cuts and higher taxes

Nov 30, 2012

Tories must nix the idea of a Ukip pact

Internal contradictions would doom the relationship

Nov 26, 2012

Osborne’s daring and characteristic choice

It is no surprise that the chancellor has appointed Mark Carney to lead the BoE

Nov 19, 2012

Cameron is right to turn to the fixer

Political strategist Lynton Crosby is just what the Conservative party needs

Nov 16, 2012

Green Tories were never sustainable

Economic gloom has encouraged the government to shelve environmental concerns

Nov 12, 2012

The BBC faces a smaller, cheaper future

In an age of bespoke media, a flat-rate annual fee for one broadcaster will seem odder and odder

Nov 5, 2012

Britain and Germany are growing apart

Berlin is losing patience with what it views as London’s intransigence on Europe

Oct 31, 2012

Nimbys up in arms over benefits

Most spending cuts rile the left; this one provokes utter incandescence among parts of the right

Oct 29, 2012

Another good idea let down by neglect

Reform of the police service is falling victim to an all too familiar sloppiness

Oct 22, 2012

Cameron needs to rediscover his instincts

The government’s mishaps result from its meagre interest in pure politics

Oct 19, 2012

EU hands Cameron a losing proposition

Refuse a referendum and the clamour will swallow him, hold one and his party will unravel

Oct 15, 2012

The head will decide Scotland’s future

Pragmatic arguments will be the decisive factor in the referendum

Oct 8, 2012

Cameron must shape his European policy

The UK prime minister not bend to eurosceptics

Oct 5, 2012

Osborne endures in hope of vindication

The chancellor is biding his time as an election approaches

Oct 1, 2012

Miliband needs to give Labour a shock

Nothing threatens the party more than the perception that it cannot take tough decisions

Sep 24, 2012

Tax on wealth is true to Tory principles

The last Budget was going to include the move and it shouldn’t be ruled out

Sep 17, 2012

Austerity will give Tories an electoral edge

Conservative spending cuts are decreasing the opposition’s client base

ABOUT JANAN

Janan Ganesh Janan Ganesh is political columnist for the FT. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years, and a researcher at the Policy Exchange think tank for two.

He appears regularly on TV and radio, including a weekly slot on BBC1's Sunday Politics. He is also the author of a biography of George Osborne, the UK chancellor.

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