It’s somewhat surreal when being balanced and reasonable counts as radical thinking. For decades, the UK has been beset with an obsession of pitting ‘private’…
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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,…
Business scandals keep coming thick and fast. The banks, BHS and the disappearing pensions, mis-selling of mortgages and other financial products, the VW deliberate cheating…
The Left have come up with a new phrase to shame centrists with: Centrist Dad. I have to admit, they nailed it this time. Having…
It is almost ten years since the publication of one of my best books (I have to say this myself!). It was called Toward the Setting…
First there was Brexit. Then the Dutch election when the PVV showed a more than 30 per cent gain. Then the unexpectedly good electoral performance…
I listened with fascination yesterday morning to a slightly blustery interview on the Today programme with Labour’s health spokesperson Jon Ashworth about PFI contracts and…
“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to…
In all its recent wild unpredictability, British politics can often be tediously predictable. And so it was with Theresa May’s speech in Florence. Perhaps not…
I found myself carrying out a small experiment at the Radix fringe meeting on Monday at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth. It rather confirmed…
I am sitting in a conference listening to a presentation by Luc Tissot, the current CEO of the Tissot watch company in Switzerland. He points…