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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…
Maybe a decade and a half ago, I was a member of a committee set up by the Lib Dems to report on the party’s…
It wasn’t a short speech – and certainly not a snappy title: “Secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects…
The news yesterday that the doom-laden trade dispute, between the giant American planemaker Boeing and its small Canadian rival Bombardier, may have been resolved only…
It’s somewhat surreal when being balanced and reasonable counts as radical thinking. For decades, the UK has been beset with an obsession of pitting ‘private’…
Business scandals keep coming thick and fast. The banks, BHS and the disappearing pensions, mis-selling of mortgages and other financial products, the VW deliberate cheating…
It is almost ten years since the publication of one of my best books (I have to say this myself!). It was called Toward the Setting…
I am sitting in a conference listening to a presentation by Luc Tissot, the current CEO of the Tissot watch company in Switzerland. He points…
They all wanted a change from what they were doing. They wanted to be more useful. “I’d like to leave something better behind me than…
For many it’s a disappointment. Some have no doubt heaved a sigh of relief that nothing very substantive is going to change. This week the…
One of the first policies enacted by the innovative New Zealand government of David Lange in the late 1980s was to remove all agricultural subsidies….