Britain’s eurosceptics are right to call for a referendum

At a recent speech at London’s Chatham House, the Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Senior Advisor to Credit Suisse, backed Prime Minister David Cameron’s call for a national referendum on whether the United Kingdom should stay in the European Union.  

The Bank of England is struggling with Britain's Treasury for control of the levers of economic policy, writes Philip Stephens

As the election campaign unfolds it seems that the most interesting political choices will come after rather than before Britain votes. The tensions within the two main parties are as compelling as anything seen so far in the contest between them, writes Philip Stephens

Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Britain is still buying aircraft designed to intercept Soviet MiGs over the North Sea, writes Philip Stephens

Now is the time for the west to intensify the pressure on Afghan president Hamid Karzai to talk to his enemies, writes Philip Stephens

Local government has been left to wither. As Whitehall has provided the money, it has micro-managed spending. Voters have been stripped of the right to make local choices, writes Philip Stephens

Both Labour and the Conservatives are reclaiming pasts they thought they had long ago left behind, writes Philip Stephens

The UK's Brown and Cameron are mistaken in assuming that political positions adopted now are sustainable in the medium term, writes Philip Stephens