British politics is more broken today than we have seen it in decades. Both main parties have moved to the extremes of right and left….
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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The year 1992 saw the start of the new-look European Union and the Maastricht treaty which created it. It was also the year of an…
It’s a long game. Any predictions of the eventual effects of Brexit on both Britain and the European Union are likely to be premature. The…
Many of us are tending to form the impression that our societies are fraying at the edges. In the UK, people have probably never been…
The Brexit referendum was supposed to be an exercise in democracy. Instead it is turning out that the Brexit decision is being used to push…
“How disappointing Mr Bond. Your pitiful little island hasn’t even been threatened.” I recalled these words of Blofeld, the arch-villain of Diamonds are Forever, when…
Both sides of the Brexit negotiations are sticking doggedly to their guns. The UK is determined to show that crucial items like the Irish border…
I have returned, as General Macarthur might have said. I was only gone a week to the calmer fields of Picardy, but I feel kike…
The Bank Holiday weekend may well be remembered as a momentous one in British politics. Something happened that would have been inconceivable as recently as…
Last week I was at a wedding reception in the US. Many were friends from New Orleans. They related how crime was increasing in the…
It’s a funny thing, but the political rhetoric about families and family life is almost overwhelming. The rhetoric goes a long way beyond the policy,…
What does respecting ‘the will of the people’ mean? Those in favour of an extreme Brexit claim that they are respecting the will of the…