Attempting to draw conclusions about the outcome of yesterday’s elections with little more than a third of the votes counted is a complete mug’s game,…
Attempting to draw conclusions about the outcome of yesterday’s elections with little more than a third of the votes counted is a complete mug’s game,…
There was a time, perhaps 1945-1985, when arts policy in Britain was catching up finally with that of its neighbours in Europe. Although cities had…
There was a fascinating article in the New Statesman last month about the fraught US presidential election in November, written by the editor of a magazine called…
A political collapse along the lines of that suffered by the Canadian Conservatives in 1993 – when they fell from a Parliamentary majority to just…
Margaret Thatcher said there was no such thing as society. Or, rather, that is the decontextualised quote which survives her. Shorn of the explanatory following…
The Conservatives seek to frame pretty much every general election (with the exception of “Get Brexit Done”) as Tory tax cuts versus Labour spend. …
Oppenheimer, the film by Christopher Nolan, has now cleaned up at the Bafta awards last month, and it is on track to do the same…
Last year, Australia held a referendum called ‘The Voice’ on a constitutional amendment to create a separate political body representing indigenous views. A number of…
The sumptuous welcome given to Vladimir Putin on December 6, by the two most powerful petromonarchies in the Persian Gulf stunned Westerners. For his “working…
The US political system has been transfixed over the past week by the House of Representatives Judicial Committee and its subcommittee – and the chair of…
“It’s the economy, stupid”. There is now an almost unanimous consensus that the next government, in less than 12 months from now, will inherit a daunting…
Did you see it? The cheering crowds, the children with their little flags, the tear and the kiss? Maybe you didn’t, because you have an…