Events such as the Great Financial Crash, the Covid Pandemic and the war in Ukraine have affected all countries around the globe. Other events such…
Events such as the Great Financial Crash, the Covid Pandemic and the war in Ukraine have affected all countries around the globe. Other events such…
How is Britain doing relative to its peers? Is there a case for optimism? The mainstream media tend to focus on headline-making problems and difficulties….
“It’s about electability now, not morality”. Thus one Tory backbencher summed up how he saw the situation for himself, and his fellow backbench MPs, when…
Populism and nationalism are on the rise. Covid has seen a raft of restrictions on people’s liberties and an increase in state intervention in many…
I am not impartial. I have never voted Conservative in my life. I am, however, proud to have friends from across the major UK parties,…
This letter first appeared in the FT Martin Wolf is right to point out that democracies need to get their own house in order if…
In our Spring Open Markets Outlook David Boyle asks What do Mary Poppins, Luke Skywalker, Peter Pan and Spiderman have in common? Why does Tim…
Speaking by videoconference on 19 February at the Munich Conference, devoted each year to security issues, Joe Biden wished to send “a clear message to…
A friend raises the question: “Did we overvalue American Democracy”? I’ll try two answers, one theoretical, the other about the possible aftermath of the attack…
This post was first published in the newsletter of the Sensible Centre in Australia… The United States needs a Sensible Centre. Could anything be clearer…
This article has also been published on Vvox (in Italian) and Agenda Publica (Spanish) The Covid-19 pandemic has represented a destructive explosion at the heart…
After the military humiliation suffered by his expeditionary force in Syria at the end of February 2020, the Turkish president decided to punish the European…