Maybe a decade and a half ago, I was a member of a committee set up by the Lib Dems to report on the party’s…
Maybe a decade and a half ago, I was a member of a committee set up by the Lib Dems to report on the party’s…
It wasn’t a short speech – and certainly not a snappy title: “Secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects…
The latest stance from the extreme Brexiteer community is that we don’t need any form of trade deal with the European Union. Operating under WTO…
There are few examples in Europe of political entities – states, regions, cities or parishes – which are governed from the bottom up. The small…
Despite being a devout atheist Jew, there are still some Christian figures for whom I have a certain admiration. These are admittedly minor figures in…
This post is taken from my Padua address at the launch of Radix Italy (see full text). Everywhere in the world we are seeing a…
I am a huge admirer of Paddy Ashdown’s new political movement, More United. Yes, it sounds like a new kind of football club. But I…
These last few days, I spent some time talking to my Spanish wife and her friends about events in Catalonia. None of them are Catalan….
Sometimes all you can rely on, to understand some sense of the direction events are taking us in, is a sense of history. As such,…
The 2017 Conservative Party general election manifesto was a departure in many ways from the Thatcherism that had been the party’s outward ideological core for the…
The Left have come up with a new phrase to shame centrists with: Centrist Dad. I have to admit, they nailed it this time. Having…