“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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The difficulty that liberals have in dealing with religion was illustrated by the events surrounding the resignation of Tim Farron as leader of the Liberal…
This blog is also posted on the CityMetric pages… Around England, new mayors of various political creeds are settling into their new roles, and figuring…
It’s a funny thing, but Michael Gove’s defence of Boris Johnson, following his damaging confusion about a British woman detained on holiday in Iran, gave…
In the UK, what happens locally on the ground is not much to do with local political control at the time, either locally or nationally. …
There is one vital thing that political parties in the UK do not seem to grasp: brand value. Like many who don’t fully understand the…
I write this while visiting various parts of the USA. During the trip, I couldn’t resist baiting some of my friends by suggesting that Donald…
A week is a long time in politics, they say. A week before September’s Federal German elections, all seemed reasonably well for Angela Merkel and…
For more than a century across the western world, political movements, governments and public policy focused exclusively on states and markets, and ignored civil society…
In the current sexual harassment scandal enveloping Westminster, a spokesman for the Prime Minister was asked whether the PM had seen a dossier listing all…
We had what my youngest son used to call an ‘insect day’ at my eldest son’s school on Monday, so we spent the afternoon watching…
If there is one thing that we should learn from the current widespread political upheavals, it’s that Bill Clinton’s famous dictum that it’s the economy…