We are offered a contest between two leaders while trends point to multi-party competition It may seem an absurd question to ask ourselves as the…
We are offered a contest between two leaders while trends point to multi-party competition It may seem an absurd question to ask ourselves as the…
Vladimir Putin has just accepted Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to attend a summit on Ukraine in Paris in “Normandy format”. Invented by President Holland on June…
In this article published by the Financial Times, Miranda Green quotes our recent paper “Avoiding the Psychopaths” previously covered also by The Telegraph. Miranda says:…
Becoming an MP should be treated like any other job with candidates required to write 300-word applications to be presented to their “employers” – the…
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…
A recent profile of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in The Atlantic magazine argues that he is accumulating too much power in a way that is…
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…
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…
So we’re off to the polls in December for what is likely to be the most unpredictable general election in a long while. Nationwide, four…