In a post-covid world, high-quality education and training will be more important than ever. During this economic crisis, we will see many sectors shrink or…
In a post-covid world, high-quality education and training will be more important than ever. During this economic crisis, we will see many sectors shrink or…
For our 6th event in our series of In Conversation events over Zoom we will be joined by Abena Oppong-Asare, the Member of Parliament for…
A number of things have become perfectly clear from a week’s renewed debate about future of Scotland. First, that Scotland is heading for independence, if…
To liberal, internationally minded readers of this blog the numbers will be sadly familiar. In a national vote, a populist, nationalist, socially conservative platform whose…
Xi Jinping, president for life of the People’s Republic of China, is a strategist. He acts with a long time horizon. His supreme goal is…
For the third time in a little over a century, we have officials and politicians reassuing us that “it will all be over by Christmas”….
In this 5th Event in our series of In Conversations over lockdown we will be talking to Stephen Kinnock MP about his own political engagement, UK…
A vision for a de-centralised, de-bureaucratised, effective National Health Service
Our armed forces are in the spotlight this July 14, as they march through the centre of Paris. They are the only European forces to…
Those of us brought up with Dad’s Army, and similar Second World War domestic dramas will remember the phrase: “Don’t you know there’s a war…
This is a cautionary note for all those people taking Michael Gove’s speech about “The Privilege of Public Service” seriously. One of my favourite books…
Tragedy has form. Stretching back to ancient Greek theatre, where it represented a quasi-religious theatrical experience, tragedy tells of a reckoning with a noble but…