Category: Revitalising Liberal Democracy

If you went back to the early 1870s, you would find that Birmingham – a stinking cesspit of great wealth and horrific poverty – was…

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There are some who will wish to pretend that the result of the general election had no bearing whatsoever on the Brexit negotiations the UK…

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Our new report A Very British Brexit suggests that, paradoxically, the 2017 general election result provides the political context in which the Brexit process can be delivered…

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Successful leadership in politics is to have a vision that can stretch across traditional voting patterns and a set of values that resonate with a…

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Some years ago now, I met the anthropologist Polly Wiessner, the expert on the complex network of reciprocal obligations in the culture of !Kung bushmen….

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I have been writing less of late, blog-wise. There are several reasons for this, not the least of which has been the birth of my…

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An American travelling in, say, Nigeria who is asked to make a cash payment for someone to ’smooth the process’ they should be doing as…

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Having worked with Tim Farron, albeit briefly, I found myself respecting his integrity, his ability to communicate with anyone and his capacity for what the…

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Now the dust has settled on the election result (if not its consequences), it might be worth re-visiting the question about whether May calling the…

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Any deal between the DUP and the Conservatives will be a disaster for the Conservatives, the DUP and Northern Ireland – both sides should walk…

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Talk of a progressive alliance have been circulating ever since Theresa May called the election. And, on and off, for many years before that. Unsurprisingly,…

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It has been an exhausting and unexpected night. One we will always remember, even more extraordinary than February 1974 – which I can barely remember…

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