In the last few years, I have had the opportunity to visit Bournemouth twice. The story from my taxi drivers and people I spoke to…
In the last few years, I have had the opportunity to visit Bournemouth twice. The story from my taxi drivers and people I spoke to…
In the UK, what happens locally on the ground is not much to do with local political control at the time, either locally or nationally. …
There are few examples in Europe of political entities – states, regions, cities or parishes – which are governed from the bottom up. The small…
This post is taken from my Padua address at the launch of Radix Italy (see full text). Everywhere in the world we are seeing a…
These last few days, I spent some time talking to my Spanish wife and her friends about events in Catalonia. None of them are Catalan….
Sometimes all you can rely on, to understand some sense of the direction events are taking us in, is a sense of history. As such,…
The year 1992 saw the start of the new-look European Union and the Maastricht treaty which created it. It was also the year of an…
It’s a long game. Any predictions of the eventual effects of Brexit on both Britain and the European Union are likely to be premature. The…
Our new report A Very British Brexit suggests that, paradoxically, the 2017 general election result provides the political context in which the Brexit process can be delivered…
I was surprised to find, this morning, that the news still has the power to reduce me to tears. The vision of parents struggling through…
Over the last few months, Brexiteers have conclusively won the air war on social media. Their clearly focused messages and emotionally appealing content has largely…