It was the usual exercise in the unpredictable event followed by the tediously predictable response. In her conference speech the Prime Minister announced she was…
It was the usual exercise in the unpredictable event followed by the tediously predictable response. In her conference speech the Prime Minister announced she was…
Patrick Wintour, the Guardian’s diplomatic editor reports on our fringe meeting at Conservative party conference in Birmingham. Extract A new American isolationism and the transformation…
We hear it all the time. Politicians who belong to the main political parties decry the rise of ‘populism’. When asked about the seemingly inexorable…
Conservative Party Autumn Conference, Hall 11b, Birmingham ICCSince the Iraq War at least, what foreign policy should look like has not corresponded to an easy…
Since 1980, membership of trade unions as a proportion of the total working population has been halved, from around 50% then to about a quarter…
Technology has not only improved our ability to communicate, it is leading to deep cultural transformation that will redefine how we do politics and what…
Article by Joe Zammit-Lucia published on Writeyou.co.uk “Throughout Europe, our liberal democracies as we know them seem to be dying in the face of extremist…
Letter by Joe Zammit-Lucia to the Financial Times in response to an FT Editorial “Sir You are right in your editorial (Europe’s crises demand hard…
This autumn, Radix will be publishing a full-length report on this topic. When one examines the Conservative Party’s internecine divisions and all-out obsessions regarding the…
It’s a paradox. People with liberal values are everywhere. In every political party, socialists and conservatives alike. Yet liberal democracy is struggling across Europe and…
For those of you unaware, the Conservative government is bringing in new boundaries in 2018, ones that will form the basis of constituencies for whenever…
It’s hard to believe last year’s Tory party conference was only last year. Back then Cameron seemed indestructible and Osborne was the assumed next prime minister….