First there was Brexit. Then the Dutch election when the PVV showed a more than 30 per cent gain. Then the unexpectedly good electoral performance…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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I listened with fascination yesterday morning to a slightly blustery interview on the Today programme with Labour’s health spokesperson Jon Ashworth about PFI contracts and…
“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to…
In all its recent wild unpredictability, British politics can often be tediously predictable. And so it was with Theresa May’s speech in Florence. Perhaps not…
After Labour’s better than expected result in June’s general election, many have speculated that the next election is Labour’s for the taking; all that is…
I found myself carrying out a small experiment at the Radix fringe meeting on Monday at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth. It rather confirmed…
In the Guardian on Monday, I set out five different ways we might kick start politics from a broad radical centre in the UK – by which…
What a confused state economists and central bankers are in these days. One can’t envy them their job – always difficult but apparently now veering…
It used to be said that British elections are always won from the centre ground. This did not seem to be the case in the…
I have just written a book for Biteback entitled Apocalypse Delayed: Why the Left is Still in Trouble. If you’re interested in the book, you…
What made the political success of the Five Star Movement in Italy possible?
Can the UK exercise some degree of control on EU immigration while still having access to the European Single Market? This is maybe the most…