This is ‘Co-production Week’. The word ‘co-production’ might sound like film industry slang for collaborative film making between two production companies – well, actually it is…
I had to take an astonished breath when Boris Johnson explained how committed he was to business – so committed, he said, that he was…
use something like this? There may have been a time when the main tools of politics were letraset, paper and pens. These days it can…
On June 26 (today), in a welcome historical coincidence, the two leaders most capable of mediating between the US and Iran will meet face-to-face in…
My article in the Times this morning seems to be attracting some attention to our book. You can read the piece here (£)
We’ve never seen this in Hong Kong before. Neither during the time of British colonization (1841-1997), nor in the current period of the ‘One Country…
The Liberal Democrats are a shambles, widely reviled for betraying people’s trust on tuition fees and led by an old man with no charisma. Yet…
It was exactly 160 years ago, on 9 June 1859, that the various liberal factions that came to make up the Victorian Liberal Party met…
This is my stand on The Radical Centre: A Ten-Point Guide. It is a seven-point programme for a radical centre 1) Introduce seriously representative democracy to replace…
Let us take the case of Germany, often believed to be a paragon of hard-headed rationality and good economic management. When the Berlin Wall came…
On June 6, celebrating the 75th anniversary of their landing in Normandy, the Great Western Allied Powers had invited Germany to the festivities. But no…
In this month’s Globalisation Outlook we argue that the US-China trade conflict is perilously close to escalation a growing perception that the US economy is…