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David Hare's election

  • Joanne Cash

    Bad night for Labour, Tories and Lib Dems – but maybe not for the rest of us

    David Hare
    Tory habit of treating voters as bad people who need to be corrected has been rewarded with no overall majority
  • Tony Blair

    UK election results: New Labour RIP, 1992-2010

    David Hare
    Cameron has sweated for every vote, but since the Iraq invasion went wrong, New Labour was always living on borrowed time
  • David Cameron arrives at Glasgow airport for the start of his 24-hour tour of the UK.

    General election: Why David Cameron is not cut out to be prime minister

    The general election has seen Cameron lacking a key leadership skill needed to cajole a country into supporting swingeing cuts – he isn't persuasive
  • In misfortune, Gordon Brown's cheerfulness is profoundly sad

    Prime minister is upbeat as campaign draws to a close but he admits 'I am fighting for my life'
  • My rural escape from election panic and hype

    David Hare
    David Hare: Getting away from the campaign trail to catch a new play has a more lasting impact than anything offered by politicians
  • Ed Balls and Labour candidate Gisela Stuart

    Women who are unwilling to pay brutal price of power

  • Nick Clegg wows the public in his role of Spanner in the Works

    David Hare
  • Conservative promises to protect the arts remain unconvincing

    The Tory manifesto does not mention the arts. Not a reason to worry, says shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt
  • Nick Clegg's surprise popularity shows failure of common wisdom

    David Hare
    The Liberal Democrat leader's game-changing TV performance shocked the print media - because it had nothing to do with them
  • Cameron's loyal rogue still at home with the politics of risk

    David Hare: Two years after his stand over the 42 days detention issue, Tory MP David Davis remains committed to his leader
  • The challenge isn't winning, it's judging who's won

    David Hare contemplates the possibility of a hung parliament and how the 'winners' will be chosen
  • Subjecty subjects and a leap too far: it's Cameronspeak

    David Hare
    David Cameron spoke to students at Varndean College in Brighton. A question got the loudest applause. In fact none of the answers got any applause
  • Leaders' debate: Wound so tight that dullness was never a danger

    David Hare

    All three used the leaders debate to present their lives as a series of encounters with the public to whom they listen with awe

  • Small thoughts always lead to dull words

    David Hare
    The mistake about great oratory is to imagine it is word cleverness. It isn't. It emerges from what's being thought
  • Tory medicine: betterment by exhortation

    David Hare

    David Hare: As the event moved into its second hour, the loudest sound was of Thatcher's body being thrown out and left for roadkill

  • Cover of the Labour Manifesto 2010

    General election 2010: Labour's strange field trip

    The manifesto looks like a dictator-friendly piece of Soviet art. But beneath the kitsch lies a plausible account of recent years
  • Northampton red, Northampton blue

  • labour jail

    Labour's criminal record – 3,600 new offences, and 86,637 inmates

  • Let's not just argue about efficiency savings

    David Hare
    During the next four weeks, it is my intention to travel the country and to speak to people about subjects the election doesn't look like being about …
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