Adam Swersky Articles

An ad pipes up on the radio in Manchester, New Hampshire: ‘Celebrate Presidents’ Day with us – we’re talking about the good presidents, not the current lot screaming for the job’. When a donut chain is decrying the decline of American politics, the world’s last...

Before New Labour, before Bambi’, before majorities of 179 and 167, before the new dawn and Things Can Only Get Better, there was this: ‘I think it’s important that we are tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime, too’. That was Tony Blair, not as leader, but...

Fresh from his trip to Buckingham Palace, David Cameron spent Friday night in his home away from home: Mark’s Club, a Mayfair-based private dining joint. Ah yes, he must have thought, the British people know my rightful place. For an old-fashioned Tory like Cameron,...

There's only one thing harder than remembering a 65-minute speech by heart: writing the policies to go with it. As Labour ministers stepped out of their government cars for the last time in June 2010, escorted from their plush departmental offices with their armies of...