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Xbow magazine – Spring 2010
David Cameron made the NHS his number one priority upon becoming Leader of the Opposition. The ongoing economic crisis has not changed this, despite a morphed election landscape as the nation braces itself for an Age of Austerity. Although some in his inner circles...
Xbow magazine – December 2007
Perhaps the most exhausting month of the year, I find December strangely reassuring. You know what you are going to get; Christmas trees, carols, angels, shopping fatigue, overspend on your credit card and now it seems, stories that “Christmas is...
Crossbow Magazine – Summer 2011 Edition
When we took office, our priorities centred on getting the nation’s credit card under control and creating the conditions for sustainable growth. Businesses simply will not invest in the UK unless they have the confidence that long-term interest rates will remain...
Xbow magazine – October 2008
Gordon Brown contributed significantly to the present crisis by building up deficits instead of surpluses when times were good, so we run the risk of government sowing the seeds of a future crises if irresponsible short term actions are taken now. What really...
Xbow magazine – Conference 2010
When David Laws resigned from the Cabinet there was much media speculation as to whether David Cameron would replace him with another Liberal Democrat. In fact, he had no choice, or rather the 'rules' of the Coalition dictated that he must. Download the magazine to...
Xbow magazine – Spring 2011
The Coalition Agreement proudly declared that the new government would govern by the “values of freedom, fairness and responsibility.” But what is fairness? Most people have some vague idea of what fairness means to them, but few actually know the true definition....
Xbow magazine – Summer 2001
No opposition party in recent British history has overturned a majority of 179 at a single blow to gain a mandate of its own. The 2001 general election campaign was in many ways uninteresting both to the pundits and to the punters: policy differences were not...
Xbow magazine – Summer 2003
Is the Conservative Party in favour of Foundation Hospitals or not? In the Commons, the Conservatives voted against the Health Bill at Second and Third Reading. The Government came closer to losing the Bill than any previous piece of Government legislation since...
Xbow magazine – Autumn 2004
Recent months have seen intense debate on the rights and wrongs of military action against Iraq, as well as the use of intelligence in coming to the decision to engage in conflict and the aftermath of that conflict. In an age when political apathy is seen as...