Author: Peter Fischer Brown

One must almost feel sorry for them. The political grouping around the authors of Britannia Unchained, that seminal work of ten years ago that painted…

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One of the highlights of the Big Tent event in Bristol was a presentation by the head of regeneration in Bilbao, who talked about how…

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In politics there are winners who sometimes don’t deserve to win, and losers who are rather unlucky. I fear Penny Mordaunt will fall into the…

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“Hello. This is the Brexit Opportunities Minister, a member of a very serious government. It has been brought to my attention that long queues have…

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It’s summer. The Conservative party is in disarray, following a leadership election. Different factions of the party are fighting one another, and government is in…

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I have been having daily chats with Graham Brady, chief controller for the Conservative backbenchers’ channel in the House of Commons and a man central…

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I have a great idea for a new contestant show, which I have recently been pitching to Graham Brady, Chief Controller for the Conservative backbenchers’…

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“It’s about electability now, not morality”. Thus one Tory backbencher summed up how he saw the situation for himself, and his fellow backbench MPs, when…

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“Adenauer, Schumacher, Erhard… and the young people who entered politics after the war, like me, we all shared something. We all wanted to make sure…

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It seems increasingly unlikely that the “people’s priority” of levelling up will amount to very much during this government’s time in office. Lack of funds,…

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December 24 is when Germans celebrate Christmas, on ‘holy night’, gathered together in small family groups perhaps before visiting Midnight Mass, a tradition played out…

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Frau Baerbock, I have to ask you, how has it been negotiating with Christian Lindner? You can’t have imagined a few months ago you would…

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