We all know the politics of why globalization threatens to go into retreat. A backlash against job losses, the hollowing out of the middle class,…
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We all know the politics of why globalization threatens to go into retreat. A backlash against job losses, the hollowing out of the middle class,…
We all continue to be surprised. Trump has signed several executive orders in his first week. He has given the go-ahead for the Keystone XL…
Last week, I travelled to the Veneto region and spoke with politicians, academics and journalists about Italian politics, Veneto autonomy and the Five Star Movement,…
It was a good speech. Some have speculated that it might come to be seen as a great speech. Time will tell. What the Prime…
A recent article by Nouriel Roubini suggests that an isolationist American policy will inevitably lead to armed conflict. He describes it as the end of…
David Boyle, my colleague at Radix has just published an excellent article about the mess that is Southern Railway, so-called rail privatisation (which, in this…
Nobody quite knows what any of these terms mean. One interpretation is that a soft Brexit would maintain access to the customs union and maybe…
Another referendum has come and gone. This time in Italy. A high turnout of voters soundly rejected Matteo Renzi’s proposed constitutional reforms. Renzi will, tomorrow,…
A budgetary statement by the Chancellor is where it becomes crystal clear that politics and economics are inextricably intertwined. So it was with this week’s…
For the last couple of years, I have been urging everyone who would listen to take seriously the fundamental cultural change that is sweeping the…
The ideas of great men and women usually fall apart because they necessarily have to be implemented by average people. The idea of a collaborative…
Across Europe, 21.7% of the prison population resides in cells not located in their country of origin. This ranges greatly from country to country. Luxembourg,…