Janan Ganesh



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Full name: Janan Ganesh

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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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 * The Tories’ vote-repelling right wing - Even the anti-austerity, anti-nuclear, anti-fracking Greens are seen as nearer the centre - 24th December 2014
 * UK election will be all about the economy - The Autumn Statement has widened the ideological choice between Tories and Labour - 16th December 2014
 * Give up dogma of the unshrinkable state - This government has cut £35bn since 2010 without Britain regressing into a desolate pre-modernity - 9th December 2014
 * Labour is stuck in the political doghouse - It is possible to ridicule the Tories’ missed targets, and still favour them over the shabby alternative - 4th December 2014
 * Will the liberal Osborne please stand up - The UK’s political currents are for turning inwards – the resistance is in the chancellor’s hands - 2nd December 2014
 * Cameron caves in to reality - Despite the PM’s spasm of common sense, he gives migration more attention than it deserves - 29th November 2014
 * Cameron needs to lift British politics - The PM should transcend the reactiveness of his premiership by giving Britain a long-term mission - 25th November 2014
 * Main parties to blame for Ukip agonies - Rochester election result highlights the culture wars dividing UK - 22nd November 2014
 * The road from serfdom divides Britons - Chekhov’s theme of the social disruptiveness of liberalism also describes Britain today - 21st November 2014
 * Tories’ futile hunt for anti-Ukip plan - Voters will decide Farage’s future independently of anything said by the mainstream parties - 17th November 2014
 * UK voters and the game of political chess - The return of growth cannot be relied on to pay electoral dividends - 15th November 2014
 * Labour’s disarray presages poll tension - The Bank of Miliband is flunking its stress test - 10th November 2014
 * Miliband puts impulse before strategy - Labour leader is authentically leftwing, and was only ever going to seek a leftwing path to power - 4th November 2014
 * Cameron should stand up to Brussels - This is not a dispute the prime minister has concocted. It would trouble anyone doing his job
 * Britons have little cause for miserablism - The country is now richer, freer, more roundly envied. Yet all talk is of decline - 20th October 2014 - 28th October 2014
 * Osborne’s wild bet on UK tax cuts - The Conservatives are standing as fiscal hawks yet promising giveaways - 18th October 2014
 * Populism distracts globalisation’s losers - Who is worse: the elitist who shrugs at people left behind or the huckster who offers false hope? - 14th October 2014
 * Clegg could yet be kingmaker in 2015 - He has changed the raison d’être of the Liberal Democrats from protest to power - 7th October 2014
 * The centre is once more up for grabs - Britain’s political arrangements as currently constituted cannot be long for this world - 4th October 2014
 * Cameron places a big bet on tax cuts - If the deficit is so serious, voters might wonder, why the generosity? - 2nd October 2014
 * The next election carries a winner’s curse - Cameron’s duty is to run a country, not wet-nurse a few mewling intransigents in his party - 30th September 2014
 * Miliband and the English question - He should avoid giving Labour a reputation as the self-described second party of England - 23rd September 2014
 * The UK in its present form is in peril - The union may have survived but in its present design it is possibly dead - 19th September 2014
 * A united kingdom requires more than gifted amateurism - Irreversible promises to do with governing are being thrown around as campaign bait by desperate men - 16th September 2014
 * A bad campaign is not the real unionist problem - The adhesives of empire, existential threats, Protestantism, armed forces have gone or are fading - 8th September 2014
 * Cameron has polish but no panache - The suspicion about the prime minister is that he is not a man you set your watch by - 2nd September 2014
 * Carswell defection is a pivotal moment - The UK eurosceptics are true believers, and nothing is ever enough for them - 29th August 2014
 * Cynicism is no match for the Isis threat - Our safety is compromised by a squeamishness about a security state at home - 26th August 2014
 * Number 10 is reduced to stately weakness - Slender majorities and coalitions translate into stronger MPs and enfeebled prime ministers - 19th August 2014
 * Miliband and the foreign policy hinge - Even a bland statement would show the Labour leader was thinking seriously about the world - 14th August 2014
 * A creed that gnaws at the Tory vote - Demographic trends are remaking the country in London’s image - 12th August 2014
 * Boris Johnson: sights set on the Tory crown - He is more than just a bit of fun but there are voters who back him as such - 9th August 2014
 * Small-scale vision is right for Britain - The country does have a role in the world: as a nexus for global flows of capital and people - 5th August 2014
 * Miliband’s talk of big ideas makes for risky politics - The Labour leader is happy to be seen as radical – he should not be - 29th July 2014
 * The Blair legacy is electoral domination - The former PM was good in the same way as Macmillan, governing with the grain of history - 22nd July 2014
 * Reshuffle is more symbol than substance - Overhaul will not reveal much about the intellectual direction of the Conservative party - 16th July 2014
 * William Hague: A qualified success - Cameron and Osborne needed Hague’s wisdom and it has not failed them - 16th July 2014
 * Service should be less superior, more civil - The purpose of Whitehall is to serve our politicians’ needs, not subvert them - 12th July 2014
 * Labour greets sharp cuts with dull protest - The prolonged pain of austerity has elicited little more than feeble whimpering from the left - 8th July 2014
 * Juncker has not swayed Britain’s fate - In Europe, exasperation vies with recognition that the UK must be compensated for its defeat - 1st July 2014
 * Being childless - Why are we so intolerant of those who choose not to be parents? A childfree life is as good as any other – and often better - 28th June 2014
 * Cheer Britain’s defining liberal values - The question arises of how the state goes about instructing people in matters of allegiance - 17th June
 * A verbal assault that will hurt inside Downing Street - The criticisms of Dominic Cummings will wound because, in tamer style, others have also advanced them over the years - 17th June
 * Junckernaut caught up in a London snarl - Britain’s effort to block the candidacy is not without encouragement from other capitals - 12th June
 * More to politics than base Tory plots - Ulterior motives have little to do with the feud within the Cameron government - 10th June 2014
 * Extremism feud undermines Cameron’s quiet achievement - The unseemly spat between cabinet ministers reflects badly on all concerned - 9th June 2014
 * Ukip has exposed Tory tensions - There is no electoral prize for consistency but the party is testing the outer limits - 3rd June 2014
 * Cameron’s test will be to hold his nerve - A flighty politician would buy the hype about the advent of ‘four-party politics’ - 27th May 2014
 * Politics celebrates all that is small - Today we demand politicians who are reassuringly unremarkable - 24th May 2014
 * The self-doubt of Miliband the ideologue - Labour is a party innovating new ways of surprising nobody - 20th May 2014
 * Tories fail to grasp the minority vote - A party stands or falls by the gut impression it creates when voters pay attention to politics - 13th May 2014
 * Property tax is perfect for the Piketty age - Nothing is more potent in UK politics than a party doing the opposite of what voters expect - 6th May 2014
 * Perils of populism for the political class - When the main party leaders play at being the man in the street, it looks craven and affected - 29th April 2014
 * Cost-of-living masks Labour ideas crisis - The wisest thing the UK opposition could do is outline the spending cuts it would make in power - 22nd April 2014
 * Britain’s loudmouth literary crowd - A few blunt words are unlikely to hurt anyone who has spent years at the sharp end in the City - 17th April 2014
 * Politically, Scotland has already left - In many ways the country is so unlike England as to resemble a separate state - 15th April 2014
 * Eurosceptic weak spot is vagueness - The Outers are touting three definitions of exit – two too many for anyone craving certainty - 8th April 2014
 * Technocrat out to break the NHS taboo - Simon Stevens was chosen because he has the desire and the ability to take on a tough patient - 5th April 2014
 * Voters are about to wake up - The fortunes of the UK political parties appear predictable over the coming year - 1st April 2014
 * Cameron’s coalition is a radical bazaar - The government has acted more radically than even a single-party Tory administration could - 25th March 2014
 * A Puritan pursuit of pressed savers - Almost every announcement of note was a pitch for voters who earn a wage and save some of it - 20th March 2014
 * Wolf at the door is the Tories’ best ally - The cause of deficit-reduction keeps the coalition together and makes Labour look feckless - 18th March 2014
 * London is a playground for rich and poor - It has always been open to the point of nihilism, hosting various scoundrels, some rich, some not - 11th March 2014
 * Resentment of migrants is about feelings - Most Tories feign sympathy for British workers but truly long for a less diverse society - 4th March 2014
 * We misjudge Merkel’s vim for EU reform - The real error is to overrate her capacity to deliver change, even if she wanted it - 25th February 2014
 * Big Data will keep us in rude health - Privacy fears that centre on the health service database are overblown - 22nd February 2014
 * Storms reveal government impotence - We have come to see the state as omnipotent in the face of any problem - 18th February 2014
 * Labour is confirming critics’ suspicions - The party’s 50p tax plan may poll well but when employers call it a job-killer, voters will listen - 28th January 2014
 * The death and life of Britain’s economy - A convalescing country is rediscovering its strengths - 25th January 2014
 * Miliband shuns public sector reform - The Labour leader’s case for competition just happens to stop at the boundaries of the state - 21st January 2014
 * Cameron’s referendum gamble has failed - Eurosceptics keep winning concessions they said were ‘final’ before demanding more - 14th January 2014
 * Young should blame bad luck not policy - Baby boomers enjoyed almost miraculously benign circumstances that will not be repeated - 7th January 2014
 * A poll upheaval is Miliband’s best hope - The question is, will 2015 be a conventional election, or the first in a new kind of polity - 4th January 2014
 * 2014 holds political hazards for Cameron - The UK prime minister knows that it is the last 12 months of a parliament that test an opposition - 24th December 2013
 * Cameron must show he is the main man - Bold decisions can create political capital – the prime minister should be brave on Heathrow - 17th December 2013
 * Britain’s age of ideological clashes - The boom allowed politicians to duck the central question of who gets what - 10th December 2013
 * A deficit memento and a cap trap - The goal is to place the burden centre stage and show that only the Tories can handle it - 6th December 2013
 * Osborne must focus on the deficit - Since the bidding war over living standards assumed prominence, Tory prospects have receded - 3rd December 2013
 * Is Cameron right about immigration? - Gideon Rachman and Janan Ganesh argue for and against the UK prime minister - 30th November 2013
 * Cameron must outwit party rationalists - The UK centre-right needs to relaunch to save conservatism from the Conservatives - 26th November 2013
 * British meet crisis with understatement - The debate over austerity and stimulus was an elite dialogue that never got going among voters - 19th November 2013
 * Flawed Help to Buy is smart politics - The party that connects with the younger voters priced out of the housing market wins - 12th November 2013
 * Britain’s politicians must dare to be dull - UK parties keep making big promises but then don’t have the capacity to deliver on them - 5th November 2013
 * The paradox at the heart of UK posturing - Cameron wants the UK to trade freely in everything but people - 29th October 2013
 * Major’s underrated premiership is long overdue for reappraisal - All any politician can do is make the lives of ordinary people a little bit better. Sir John did so - 25th October 2013
 * Cameron must fear narrow election win - Many Tories regard the prime minister as a ‘Conservative In Name Only’ - 22nd October 2013
 * Journey from austerity has hardly begun - The winner of the 2015 election will have to carry on making cuts no matter how healthy the economy - 15th October 2013
 * UK eurosceptics are not ready for a fight - Haggling over process is a good way of not having to think about substance - 8th October 2013
 * The Tories will get serious with populism - There are problems with the Conservatives’ race to credibility, not least their policies - 1st October 2013
 * Miliband needs Balls the pragmatist - The UK shadow chancellor is a useful corrective to the Labour leader - 24th September 2013
 * Vote on EU will not help Cameron critics - Polls show a dwindling of the salience of the issue – it grips a minority and bores the rest - 17th September 2013
 * Miliband and the left misread Lehman - As long as the central fact of politics is scarcity, parties defined by public spending will struggle - 9th September 2013
 * Britain’s wish to intervene will survive - Far from being a foreign policy realist, David Cameron has a taste for moral activism - 3rd September 2013
 * Living standards are too big a problem for politicians - Westminster struggles with the reality that wage stagnation is not a peculiarly British difficulty - 27th August 2013
 * Inflation neuroses return to UK politics - The cargo cult of Thatcherism holds tight money as an article of faith - 10th August 2013
 * Political strategists barely affect elections - The first law of politics is that almost nothing matters – speeches, tactics or campaigns - 6th August 2013
 * UK should accept it is London-centred - The capital has not flourished because of favourable treatment - 30th July 2013
 * Britain’s systemic sporting revolution - There is nothing mystical about its success – countries with the right approach do well - 25th July 2013
 * Cameron falls prey to the lure of intrusion - The political class is entranced by groups eager to legislate away social problems - 23rd July 2013
 * 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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