Coronavirus looks set to interrupt most plans in the UK this spring, including one of the most unusual, the national festival holiday that was expected…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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It was probably inevitable, though not in its rapidity and perhaps not quite for the reasons anyone expected. Once assumed to be the next CDU…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Wearing a mask on his face like most of his compatriots, Xi Jinping finally visited a hospital on Monday, February 10, to treat patients suffering…
In Germany, the ruling CDU initially formed a government in Thuringia with the supporting votes of elected members of the AfD – described as a…
As of 1 February 2020, the United Kingdom is no longer a member of the European Union (EU). It is the end of sixty-five years…
There is a myth that had grown around mass suicides. We use the phrase ‘drinking the kool-aid’ as a shorthand for a group of people…