Janan Ganesh



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Full name: Janan Ganesh

Area of interest: Politics

Journals/Organisation: Financial Times

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Career: political correspondent for The Economist for five years, and a researcher at the Policy Exchange think tank for two

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Latest work: Age of Osborne OCLC780036508, Biteback, 2012. Reviewed here by James Hanning

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 * Happy days for the UK’s kingmaker - A hung parliament might leave the Lib Dems once again in power - 16th July 2013
 * Miliband must renounce more than Unite’s tactics - The Labour leader’s task is to show voters that he would not govern how Len McCluskey desires - 9th July 2013
 * Even the British left is turning against Europe - Labour is watching the social market become less social and more of a market - 2nd July
 * A Leviathan cowed – welcome to Britain in 2023 - The spending review foretells a smaller and far more humble government - 29th June
 * Osborne sets a trap for Labour on welfare spending - Sticking to the government’s benefits cap will torture the opposition - 27th June
 * Things could get gloomier for Britain - Osborne should veer towards caution – the recovery is liable to be snuffed out by events abroad - 25th June 2013
 * Britain is served well by its political class - The subjects of widespread popular derision have put on a jolly good show - 18th June 2013
 * UK diplomacy must boost UK business - Cameron is right to focus foreign policy on the ‘global race’. He must now make it a priority - 11th June 2013
 * Miliband must address the past - Labour’s compromise with austerity reflects its struggle to win trust over tax and spending - 8th June 2013
 * Politics catches up with age of austerity - Parties will be confronted with hard choices about the role of the state - 4th June 2013
 * Knee-jerkers are liberals in terror debate - Britain has tightened security laws at many moments without becoming an unfree country - 28th May 2013
 * Why I shifted sides over Europe - I have not changed my view but now appear to be on the other side of the battle lines - 21st May 2013
 * The Tories have become ungovernable - Drama is giving way to farce. The eurosceptic demands are now plain odd - 14th May 2013
 * It would be folly for Cameron to ape Ukip - This is already an exceptionally conservative government - 6th May 2013
 * Ukip’s win will make all parties nervous - Role of Nigel Farage’s party is still more psychological than electoral - 4th May 2013
 * Growth will not decide the next election - A strong economy at the next UK election could harm the Conservatives - 30th April 2013
 * Myths surround the austerity chancellor - Half-truths and outdated certainties abound about the UK’s second most powerful person - 25th April 2013
 * Labour’s clarity may be its undoing - Miliband is not guilty of nebulousness – he is an astonishingly clear politician - 23rd April 2013
 * Conservatives should be pro-market, not pro-business - It was not the size of the state that Thatcher rolled back but its reach into the economy - 16th April 2013
 * North and south are worlds apart - Britain’s politicians must be both ambitious and realistic in response - 13th April 2013
 * The Iron Lady towers over modern Britain - Thatcher’s legacy is not order – though that was a precious achievement – but freedom - 9th April 2013
 * History is leaving welfare state behind - British parties that take comfort in tired attitudes will be dumped - 5th April
 * Tories ignore signs in rush for the exit - The party is forgetting the qualities that could ensure victory - 1st April 2013
 * Strange death of a more liberal Britain - The country is gripped by a feeling that it became almost sinfully slack - 26th March 2013
 * Osborne’s play for the strivers - The chancellor had to revive his party’s winning tradition as the friend of the aspirational classes - 21st March 2013
 * Press battle thaws Labour-Lib Dem frost - This could in future be seen as the dawn of a new coalition - 19th March
 * Better make this Budget a boring one - Beige would respect that there is no magic bullet for growth - 12th March 2013
 * Soccer fans warm to Ruhr romantics - Borussia Dortmund is a club in stark contrast to billionaire-owned rivals in European football - 7th March 2013
 * Cameron condemned to rightward lurches - The moment to push root-and-branch modernisation has gone - 5th March 2013
 * Voters expect Osborne to stay his course - The British are busy hunkering down for years of squeezed living standards - 26th February 2013
 * Cameron must stop appeasing his party - The UK leader sees same-sex marriage as a way to broaden Tory appeal - 4th February 2013
 * Rising populism is worthy of Nixonland - At a time when elites are popularly resented, a silent majority is there for the taking - 29th January
 * Tory conflagration has been postponed - The referendum will settle nothing but could slice through the Tories - 26th January 2013
 * Custodian of an interventionist legacy - Cameron filters Blair’s basic arguments through a very Tory temperament - 22nd January 2013
 * Immigration line weakens Cameron story - The UK government’s policy is economic and political folly - 15th January 2013
 * The myth of the imperial presidency - Obama’s critics forget that he is stymied by his foes in Congress - 8th january 2013
 * The Europe speech Cameron should give - The prime minister is to make a long-awaited address. Here is a suggested draft - 5th January 2013
 * Britain suffers delusions of weakness not grandeur - Nowhere is the UK’s imagined irrelevance less true than in the EU - 18th December 2012
 * Politicians miss the point of business - The corporate purpose is not social responsibility - 11th December 2012
 * Britain needs another grand vision tailored to what it can afford - The problem confronting the country is a reluctance to question the postwar settlement - 8th December 2012
 * Candid Osborne avoids political risk - Chancellor needed an accident-free Autumn Statement - 5th December 2012
 * British are bearing austerity – for now - Public resigned to services cuts and higher taxes - 4th December 2012
 * Tories must nix the idea of a Ukip pact - Internal contradictions would doom the relationship - 1st December 2012
 * Osborne’s daring and characteristic choice - It is no surprise that the chancellor has appointed Mark Carney to lead the BoE - 27th November 2012
 * Cameron is right to turn to the fixer - Political strategist Lynton Crosby is just what the Conservative party needs - 20th November 2012
 * Green Tories were never sustainable - Economic gloom has encouraged the government to shelve environmental concerns - 17th November 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 - 13th November 2012
 * Britain and Germany are growing apart - Berlin is losing patience with what it views as London’s intransigence on Europe - 6th November 2012
 * Another good idea let down by neglect - Reform of the police service is falling victim to an all too familiar sloppiness - 30th October 2012
 * Cameron needs to rediscover his instincts - The government’s mishaps result from its meagre interest in pure politics - 22nd October 2012
 * EU hands Cameron a losing proposition - Refuse a referendum and the clamour will swallow him, hold one and his party will unravel - 20th October 2012
 * The head will decide Scotland’s future - Pragmatic arguments will be the decisive factor in the referendum - 16th October 2012
 * Cameron must shape his European policy - He must not bend to eurosceptics, who unrealistically want the best of both worlds - 9th October 2012
 * Osborne endures in hope of vindication - The chancellor is biding his time as an election approaches - 6th October 2012
 * Miliband needs to give Labour a shock - Nothing threatens the party more than the perception that it cannot take tough decisions - 2nd October 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 - 25th September 2012
 * Politics should resist tyranny of apology - The sheer number of statements of contrition dulls their value - 22nd September 2012
 * Austerity will give Tories an electoral edge - Conservative spending cuts are decreasing the opposition’s client base - 18th September 2012
 * Tories may regret their disdain of Romney - It is folly to have such poor relations with a party that could soon hold the world’s mightiest office - 11th September 2012
 * fells green politics and returns to Tory roots'' - The Conservatives’ flights of fancy will go unlamented - 8th September 2012
 * A reshuffle that means business - Cameron is discovering that grand visions are all very well but administrative nous is what counts - 5th September 2012
 * Cameron moves to secure his right flank - Shake-up shows PM has an eye on the 2015 election - 4th September 2012
 * Time for Britain to rediscover the art of coalition - To save himself, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg should put office before party - 3rd September 2012
 * Osborne should fear angry Tory outriders - Those on the right of the party do not reward concessions; they pocket them and ask for more - 28th August 2012
 * Miliband ought to be having sleepless nights - Perhaps the most damaging perception in all the polls is that Labour cannot take tough decisions - 20th August 2012
 * London’s East End shows limits of the state - Just as the UK is learning to invest in itself, it is losing its strengths of openness and flexibility - 13th August 2012
 * How UK can keep the Olympic flame burning - Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah can only do so much - 7th August 2012
 * The meaning of Boris: high jinks not high office - The hype about Mr Johnson is due to Britain’s inexperience with localism - 4th August 2012



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