Articles by Anne McElvoy
Anne McElvoy / February 24, 2010
Between keeping the party faithful onside and wooing the public sector, David Cameron risks forgetting what he’s really about
Anne McElvoy / January 27, 2010
Gaitskell, Bevan, Healey, Heseltine, Portillo all missed out on the top job. But who are the latest contenders for might-have-beens?
Anne McElvoy / December 16, 2009
Gordon Brown’s clumsy class war hides a muddle within both parties over exactly where “middle England” is
Anne McElvoy / November 18, 2009
The Tory leader tries to placate his sceptical troops by picking symbolic fights with Eurocrats. Sound familiar?
Anne McElvoy / October 21, 2009
Despite the grumblings of a few sidelined intellectuals and the lingering sense that east Germans are second-class citizens, the former GDR has come an amazingly long way
Anne McElvoy / September 23, 2009
Our politicians yearn to be charismatic. Yet Angela Merkel is popular and charisma free. What might they take from her example?
Anne McElvoy / August 27, 2009
Cameron’s Conservatives want to be seen as the party of social mobility. But do they have the stomach to do anything about it?
Anne McElvoy / January 20, 1999
Recent clashes over European tax harmonisation have underlined the significant differences between Tony Blair's New Labour and Gerhard Schröder's New Centre in Germany. The gulf in political culture...
Anne McElvoy / November 20, 1997
The best work of Christa Wolf evokes a lost world of betrayed idealism. Anne McElvoy defends the East German writer against crude post-unification attacks but finds she has not yet connected with the...