The EU’s primary task is to work with member states to secure the future contentment, prosperity and security of its citizens. How it best fulfils…
The EU’s primary task is to work with member states to secure the future contentment, prosperity and security of its citizens. How it best fulfils…
I have to admit that, perhaps for the first time, I have become frightened for our democracy. I have lived through the Three-Day Week in…
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the…
William Morris expressed the great paradox of political progress best in his fantasy 1888 novel A Dream of John Ball: “Men fight and lose the…
Whether it’s Brexit, EU-China, US-EU relations, the business of political prediction has become a mug’s game leading to market volatility and potential financial instability Will…
Many people will be puzzled. Why is the Northern Ireland (NI) issue so difficult to resolve in the Brexit negotiations? When recently questioned about it,…
In the short term, a no-deal exit from the EU may break the current impasse in UK parliament and please the most ardent Brexiteers. But…
Writing about the future of the Conservative Party on the eve this year’s conference feels like the proverbial challenge of pinning jelly to a wall….
The UK’s institutions have, so far, stood up to what can only be considered a sustained assault by the executive. Over the last three years,…
Not everything is black and white. That must be the Conservative leadership’s hope having lost in the Supreme Court and the Labour leadership’s hope now…
There are, said the poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge – the author of Kubla Khan and the Ancient Mariner – “two classes of men”….
Is the Lberal Democrats’ promise to revoke Article 50 a masterstroke or a big mistake?