I have a great idea for a new contestant show, which I have recently been pitching to Graham Brady, Chief Controller for the Conservative backbenchers’…
I have a great idea for a new contestant show, which I have recently been pitching to Graham Brady, Chief Controller for the Conservative backbenchers’…
The peculiar Englishness of the business about the resignation of Boris Johnson was brought home to me by the following plea in the newsletter of…
The old adage that sex always brings down Conservatives and money always does in Labour has held true again. The root of our problems can…
This article was also published on Reaction and Agenda Publica He’s finally gone – well, kind of going. To the very end, and despite all…
Speaking on the Today programme on Thursday morning, ahead of the Britain Project/Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Future of Britain conference, the former Prime…
Radix and coalition of high street stakeholders publish plans for town centre revival A coalition of retailers, local authorities, landlords, investors, lawyers and Community organisations…
There is suddenly a great deal of talk, on all sides of the political sweep, about the prospects of a pact between Labour and the…
“It’s about electability now, not morality”. Thus one Tory backbencher summed up how he saw the situation for himself, and his fellow backbench MPs, when…
What a strange nation we live in! I spent the afternoon of the first jubilee bank holiday on 2 June looking around Virginia Woolf’s old…
Because they are not always based on rational decisions, international relations are unpredictable. In August 2021, when the Americans, without having bothered to consult their…
The starting point for this book was the leaders’ summit we held in November, next to St James’ Park in London. The subject was regeneration…
“The British people are prepared if necessary to be blown to atomic dust.” So said Sir Alec Douglas-Home when he was prime minister. There are…