Anyone who was involved in Liberal Democrat politics in the early 1990s, as I was as editor of Lib Dem News, will remember what was…
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Anyone who was involved in Liberal Democrat politics in the early 1990s, as I was as editor of Lib Dem News, will remember what was…
Jon Ronson, in his book The Psychopath Test, suggests that a significant number of our leaders – in business, industry and politics – are psychopathic….
In an interview published on 9 November, in the British weekly The Economist, Emmanuel Macron said that NATO was brain-dead. The metaphor is at the…
Central banks have come to dominate economic policy in all major economies. This is problematic. It raises questions about the legitimacy of central bank independence…
The eponymous estate of Mansfield Park; the stately home of Jane Austen’s great novel, was paid for from the proceeds of a Caribbean slave plantation….
Those criticising Viktor Orban’s touting of the idea of ‘Illiberal Democracy’ hold it to be a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron. But much the same…
There’s no escaping the anniversary in the German media. 30 years ago, Günter Schabowski famously declared at the East German government press conference of 9…
Donald Trump may not have given enough thought to his historic decision of October 6. On that day, after talking on the phone with the…
Only six in ten people aged 18-24 turned out to vote in the 2017 general election, compared to a national average of seven in ten….
On Wednesday, the first full day of the 2019 election campaign, the anti-Brexit campaign group Best for Britain launched their tactical voting website GetVoting.org, which…
And so we have the denouement of the “blocked parliament” and the Brexit debate. It doesn’t take a great strategist or futurist to know what…
Expect the unexpected in this most unpredictable of elections. And yet some things are predictable. The Conservative election strategy has been clear for some time:…