A couple of days ago, I received a message from a friend in the UK: “Astonishing scenes from Holland – this is not the picture…
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A couple of days ago, I received a message from a friend in the UK: “Astonishing scenes from Holland – this is not the picture…
As results were coming in from the Georgia run-off, I found myself thinking about polarisation in politics. The shape of Joe Biden’s presidency hung on…
About a quarter of a century ago, I heard a fabulous story about computerised push-polling in the USA – not something we have ever been…
Fascism (n) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasising an…
When, on Wednesday, Joe Biden took the reins of the US Executive, his first emergency will be the fight against the consequences of the Covid-19…
Ding, dong, the Trump is gone, and – fingers crossed – without any final horror for us to remember him by. I am nervous about…
In 2007, I left the United Kingdom to live and work in China. The country, which I had left booming whilst Tony Blair was entering…
The UK is set to face steep challenges on the road to post-covid economic recovery. Concerns remain around the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and…
You think you might be dreaming. Here’s a new virus that appeared in Wuhan thirteen months ago and has killed two million people worldwide since,…
A friend raises the question: “Did we overvalue American Democracy”? I’ll try two answers, one theoretical, the other about the possible aftermath of the attack…
Keir Starmer may just be a small phenomenon. I suppose that second guessing the current UK government is not actually terribly onerous. Starmer just has…
Freya Aquarone speaks about her new book here… Over the past half century, despite many changes of government, and many impassioned pleas for alternative visions,…