The British Conservatives' Battle
Matthew d’Ancona is an award-winning political columnist and is writing a History of England with John Cleese. He did not go to Eton.
David Cameron is poised to lead the UK's Conservatives to victory over Gordon Brown's ailing Labour Party. Unless Cameron's rivalry with London's mayor gets in the way.
The G-20 Bonus Madness
Andrew Neil is a publisher and broadcaster working out of London, New York, Dubai, and the south of France. He is chairman and editor in chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publishers of The Spectator, Spectator Business, and Apollo.
France will huff and puff at the G-20 sessions today. Germany will dig in its heels. But in the end, the U.S. and U.K. rule the global banking system-and they've pre-cooked a deal.
Why This Murdoch Scandal Won't Disappear
Richard Heller is a British author and journalist and former chief of staff to Denis Healey, Deputy Leader of the British Labour Party.
An angry parliament and hungry lawyers are likely to keep Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking scandal in the headlines and, Richard Heller writes, force Britain's pols to stand up to the media baron.
With an expense-account scandal claiming the jobs of Labour and Tory lawmakers alike and threatening to bring down Prime Minister Gordon Brown, all hell has broken lose in Britain. How did it come to this?
Is Gordon Brown a Goner?
Peter Oborne is a political columnist for the Daily Mail. His book, The Triumph of the Political Class, was published in paperback by Simon & Schuster in November 2008.
With the resignation of four ministers, a growing expenses scandal, and rampant finger-pointing, Gordon Brown may be the worst prime minister in modern British history-and a goner within weeks.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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