There is little so enraging as when officials use different ways of interpreting concepts to the ways that most people understand them. I refer especially…
There is little so enraging as when officials use different ways of interpreting concepts to the ways that most people understand them. I refer especially…
There is a growing belief that localism will become increasingly important in the UK economy. Underlying this belief, most people think that today’s governance systems…
OPEN MANIFESTO POLICY DRAFT The lack of affordable housing in the UK seems a perennial problem and yet with imagination it is perfectly solvable. How…
I know, I know. It is supposed to be about too much money chasing too few goods – but, more fundamentally, what is it about?…
If you are a home-owner you probably love rising house prices, and hate the idea that somebody — it has to be the government —…
One of the peculiar things about being a radical centrist is that we don’t like taking obvious sides or following crowds. We are liable to…
I have been very interested to see the slow return of a broader consciousness of history, after it has driven out by a combination of…
I am reading such a good book in the bath at the moment (this isn’t a backhanded compliment – I read nearly all my books…
My mother died over the weekend. I say that partly to explain that, this time at least, my failure to meet deadlines has a reason….
The author Radical Middle, the campaigner Mark Satin, used the metaphor of roads and myopia to explain what he meant by the title. For Satin, it…