• He has been backing a strongly liberal economic policy, which has annoyed the old tribal conservatives on whom the Hashemite monarchy has depended since it was installed by the British 80-plus years ago.

    ECONOMIST: Caught in the middle, as usual

  • Mr Carter may be no more than a cuddly old joke to many conservatives nowadays.

    ECONOMIST: A toothy nightmare for Republicans

  • He will run a campaign of rich against poor, men against women, Democrats against Republicans, young against old and liberals against conservatives.

    CNN: Obama's message of divide and blame

  • Moreover, Mr Major also inherited the poll tax, the product of his predecessor's attempt to reform local-government finance, which had young rebels on the streets and old rebels deserting the Conservatives in droves.

    ECONOMIST: John Major

  • It is clear that Mr Graham has felt most comfortable with conservatives of the old, pre-Moral Majority stamp.

    ECONOMIST: American evangelism

  • Livingston's candidacy, only two days old, already has divided conservatives.

    CNN: Republicans vie for speaker's job

  • With Labour forced to nationalise Northern Rock, it looked like the Tories would be able to paint Gordon Brown as returning to his old Labour roots, allowing the Conservatives to reclaim the economic high ground which they had enjoyed under Margaret Thatcher.

    BBC: Political review 2008: Conservatives

  • Rush rallies demoralized conservatives and Republicans behind the old Reagan gospel.

    FORBES: Two-Front War Against Obamanomics

  • Passing the law of restitution - of which the citizenship offer forms a part - was controversial in Spain, where opposition conservatives complained the legislation reopened old wounds.

    BBC: Passport offer for Spanish exiles

  • Conservatives were split between the old nationalists who wanted to rewrite the constitution and become fully independent from the U.S., and the more business-minded elite, who opted to go along with anything Washington demanded.

    WSJ: A Dangerous Rift Between China and Japan

  • The pessimists a coalition of populist conservatives, assorted communitarians and the old left agree on the need for a balance between an effective state and the economic efficiency that market forces can provide.

    ECONOMIST: The future of the state

  • Conservatives tend to go to war for old-fashioned causes, such as the nation's interests or (as in the Falklands) its sovereignty.

    ECONOMIST: Boxing for Britain

  • The Conservatives have chosen 28-year-old Maurice Golden, an environmental campaign manager for Keep Scotland Beautiful, while businessman Harry Wills will run for the Liberal Democrats.

    BBC: Brown 'keen' to visit Glenrothes

  • The Obamacons are manifestations of a deeper turmoil in the Republican rank-and-file, as the old coalition of small-government activists, social conservatives and business Republicans falls apart.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • Horizontal politics means the bad old ways: Democrat versus Republican, or liberals against conservatives.

    ECONOMIST: Mike Huckabee throws his hat in

  • After three years of frustrated hopes for change and a lot of bad luck for Japan and its opposition parties the conservatives are setting back into power, and plowing old furrows.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The Conservatives counter by saying that the new schools would have to abide by the old admissions rules, with no interviewing of applicants and no preference for able students.

    ECONOMIST: Transforming Britain's schools

  • The Conservatives will be hopeful of holding on to Monmouth, and Neil Kinnock s old seat of Islwyn is a key Labour target seat, as the party strives to win an overall majority.

    BBC: NEWS | VOTE 2003

  • If you're old, or cold, or hungry, the government is less New Labour, more new conservatives.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | Charles Kennedy's speech in full

  • For the Conservatives, George Osborne said Mr Darling was "proving quite a defender of the old model of finance".

    BBC: Treasury questions

  • The Conservatives also thought that they could claim some credit, pointing out that a 15-year-old will have spent most of his educational career benefiting from their policies before 1997.

    ECONOMIST: Educational standards compared

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