It’s déjà vu all over again. Theresa May got a deal. She and the EU announced it with great fanfare, and then, within hours, it became clear…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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If we have the chance to reduce harm, we should take it. That idea – harm reduction – lies behind much of what any government…
“Civilisation is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” So wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau, maybe somewhat cynically. Yet, listening to yesterday’s Queen’s…
In ‘normal times’ Westminster’s high ceremonial, the Queens Speech, is intended to showcase the government’s agenda for the coming term. Today it’s quite the reverse,…
I have seen the future, as they say – and so, I believe, did everyone else visiting Westminster over the past week. It was more…
More than 1,500 children – a quarter of whom were aged under 16 – were taken to court last year after being caught with cannabis…
One of the huge successes of Blairism (as opposed to Tony Blair) was in creating an ecosystem of thinkers and commentators around new Labour that…
When car-crash politics proves such irresistible and distracting theatre, it is even more important to maintain a focus on our central, generational challenge – what…
We are participating in this event organized by the Financial Services Club and Z-Yen Outline Over the past decade, central banks have taken on new…
In this RADIX session held at the Big Tent Festival of Ideas, 2019, our panel discusses whether the old politics of monolithic, hierarchical political parties…
It feels like we’re living through a revolution long in the making. To be fair, I haven’t experienced enough other revolutions to adequately compare it…
There is something almost Tolkein-esque about the plight of Boris Johnson now, though it is not quite clear yet whether he is playing a Saruman…