Articles By Iain Martin
May 2015
Voters north of the border are gripped by a nationalist mania. The SNP’s zealotry means I no longer feel as at home there as I once did
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December 2014
The Mayor of London may see himself as the coming man of destiny, but there are plenty of rivals to thwart his path to 10 Downing Street
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September 2014
Political elites have yet to grasp that voters will soon demand protection from the harsh impact of the Second Machine Age
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June 2014
The Prime Minister can handle the pressure of a crisis. But he has found it more difficult to set out a Conservative vision for Britain
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March 2014
UKIP may have peaked but the Eurosceptic party is still likely to take enough Tory votes to catapult Ed Miliband into Downing Street
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December 2013
Our future King’s dominion will be unrecognisable but the political class has not yet come to terms with its fast-changing landscape
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July/August 2013
'Are we seeing the disintegration and potential death of the party system?'
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April 2013
David Cameron must calm backbenchers and win back the core voters he has recklessly offended, before reaching out to the centre ground
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December 2012
Cameron thinks Obama’s victory vindicates Osborne’s social liberalism but they both need to focus on aspiration and prosperity
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September 2012
Critics of the flawed euro project have been vindicated but gloating is premature. They need to set out their own vision
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July/August 2012
To some in the Conservative Party he is a scheming charlatan with no policies. To others his star power could be worth harnessing
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April 2012
The Prime Minister acts like a figure from the era of Clinton and Blair. Their style of politics is dead and he needs a new one
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April 2012
With Steve Hilton on sabbatical in California, it's high time Cameron ditched the Big Society.
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March 2012
Michael Gove said he would never stand for the Tory leadership. But Iain Martin wrote, in 2012: "Perhaps he will be able to overcome his fear . . . Those who care about the future of this country should hope so: the Tories need their Iron Laddie and so do we."
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January/February 2012
We have a tremendous opportunity to reconfigure our place in the EU. Does David Cameron have the courage to seize it?
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November 2011
Alex Salmond’s slogan, “Independence in Europe”, is no longer appealing. Unionists have a chance to reset the referendum debate
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September 2011
The riots have given this pragmatic Prime Minister a chance to impose a tough new social agenda and relaunch his leadership
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About Iain Martin
Iain Martin is a political commentator and author based in London. He writes for the Sunday Telegraph and edits CapX, a website promoting popular capitalism. He is writing a new history of the City of London.
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