Two decades and a bit ago, my son and his friend devised a game. They rolled matchbox cars down the banister and cheered as they…
Two decades and a bit ago, my son and his friend devised a game. They rolled matchbox cars down the banister and cheered as they…
The Chesham and Amersham by-election has caused a bit of an earthquake in a political landscape that many thought was frozen with no credible opposition…
There is no doubt that – rightly or wrongly – we are feeling let down by our leaders these days, whether it is for their…
On 23 March, Boris Johnson told the 1922 committee that we have success with the vaccine because of “capitalism” and “greed”. Then he added: “forget…
Ding, dong, the Trump is gone, and – fingers crossed – without any final horror for us to remember him by. I am nervous about…
Keir Starmer may just be a small phenomenon. I suppose that second guessing the current UK government is not actually terribly onerous. Starmer just has…
Boris Johnson, we have a problem. A politician elected to leadership largely on the promise of getting Brexit done has got Brexit done, with a…
Boris Johnson is psychologically preparing the United Kingdom for the worst-case scenario in its relations with the European Union, namely the same status as Australia…
So here we are, the talks without result will go “the extra mile” for a few more days, and may even continue in some form,…
Right from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s been imperative that we avoid a “second wave” of infections. This statement, obvious as it is…
Tragedy has form. Stretching back to ancient Greek theatre, where it represented a quasi-religious theatrical experience, tragedy tells of a reckoning with a noble but…
Under-promise and over-deliver was the golden rule of my twenty-three years as a consultant. Yet this guiding principle clashes with the natural propensity of liberals…