The Lib Dems are on a roll, the Greens are still making progress but Change UK have had a disastrous few weeks. Nevertheless, unless you believe…
The Lib Dems are on a roll, the Greens are still making progress but Change UK have had a disastrous few weeks. Nevertheless, unless you believe…
I was fascinated last month while writing about the great Distributist G. K. Chesterton, to find his description of why he stopped being a socialist….
As a young man, G. K. Chesterton turned away from socialism to be a Liberal because, he claimed at the time, of the “tone of…
The German SPD Social Democratic party is in deep crisis. A reluctant coalition partner once again with Angela Merkel’s CDU, poll ratings place the SPD…
In spite of Sadiq Khan’s recent pronouncements, the Labour leadership may be right to resist the introduction of an explicit policy in support of a…
How long does it take for the body to clear a virus? Well, it depends. Some are fatal. Some clear quickly with no particular lasting…
I never went inter-railing, as so many of my friends did in the 1970s, but I have now to mark the imminent arrival of my…
What is a progressive these days? I find myself asking this question constantly for a range of reasons which those who know me will understand….
Phillip Hammond, the UK Chancellor of Exchequer makes jokes about the lovable heroes Pooh and Eeyore, while delivering his budget statement to Parliament. Meanwhile. life…
How do political parties realign themselves. That is a peculiar mystery in the UK, where everything seems desperately constipated. It also depends on context. The…
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…