“It’s not fair!” This is one of the most common utterances to come out of young children’s mouths. A sense of fairness seems somehow ingrained…
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“It’s not fair!” This is one of the most common utterances to come out of young children’s mouths. A sense of fairness seems somehow ingrained…
A country deeply divided, by geography, class, wealth and opportunity. A country looking for an identity in a new, unstable century. A country feeling insufficiently…
I have an unproven and probably unprovable theory about new movements – political or otherwise – which is that they usually involve reaching back into…
Last week was a fascinating glimpse into the limited imagination of our political duopoly. I use the term ‘duopoly’ but, it’s more like an ersatz…
On the 22 February, France implemented an industrial decision that directly opposed to its medium and long-term interests. It shut down the first reactor at…
For tribal politicians the primacy of one’s party is an article of faith. For thinking Liberal Democrats, however, the three general elections of the second…
Following his success in the 2019 general election, Boris Johnson and his government have talked a lot about “levelling up” Britain. But what does it…
During the 2015 UK election campaign, I remember a clip of a politician being asked by potential voters what she was going to do about…
I have been reading an amazing novel, Middle England by Jonathan Coe, which is an attempt to capture a nation at this peculiar point in…
It’s a pretty disconnected world. That is how an impartial observer could have summed up the spectacle of the Munich Security Conference, held on 15…
The politically correct, like the poor, have always been with us. Take Noel Coward, for example, who was virtually drummed out of the country for…
There have been some startling statistics revealed as we enter a new decade. One of those that struck me most was the change in population…