France has been waging war in the Sahel for almost six years. This is longer than the Second World War. This is all the longer…
France has been waging war in the Sahel for almost six years. This is longer than the Second World War. This is all the longer…
The general view seems to be that, whatever the outcome, this has been a desultory election campaign. More lies, more half-truths, more evasion. This is…
Has the political culture forgotten how to make things happen? Maybe it matters not at all who wins elections. Why not? Because our political culture…
One of us met the chief executive of a metropolitan area recently and they said that, theoretically at least, there should be no role for…
As we head towards the final denouement of the election, there is little of the joy and anticipation that one normally feels when the final…
Putting a cross on a piece of paper once every few years is virtually the electorate’s only involvement in our so-called democracy. We thereby elect…
For political nerds, a club of which I confess to being a fully paid-up member, elections are usually times of great excitement. Yet this election…
At the NATO summit in London on 3 and 4 December 2019, there was a lot of talk about Russia and relatively little about Kosovo…
Winston Churchill complained about the BBC’s uncommitted stance during the General Strike in 1926. “How can you be even-handed between the fireman and the fire?”…
The Overton Window describes what is acceptable for discussion in public. This changes over time and this influence what happens in politics. According to Overton,…