On 27 April 1968, Richard Crossman reflected in his diary on Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. Powell had delivered the speech a week earlier in a bid to...
It has become increasingly accepted, not least by the prime minister and opposition leadership, that the negotiation of a comprehensive trade relationship with ...
For forty years, a major stimulus to decent labour standards in Britain has come from its membership of the European Union. Procedurally it has strengthened the...
Is the UK ungovernable? After Brexit and an inconclusive 2017 general election, widespread disaffection of many UK citizens with politics, politicians and polit...
About once a decade, an arms trade scandal punctures public consciousness and generates debate about British foreign policy, the state of domestic democracy, an...
There is an emerging conventional wisdom that the Brexit vote resulted from specific domestic factors in Britain, such as divisions within the ruling Conservati...
The collapse of Carillion has brought the usual suspects into the spotlight. Senior executives prospered on over-generous pay packets. Shareholders did not ask ...
Public interest in Basic Income, or BI (known as Universal Basic Income in the UK), has increased significantly during the last few years. In addition to academ...
Equality of opportunity in the labour market is crucial for the economic and social integration of minorities, so we should be very concerned that British Musli...
Anthony King was, among other things, a public intellectual: that is, he could explain how the most rigorous and theoretical social science threw light on our p...
The growing capability of machines has raised the spectre of mass technologically induced unemployment and profound economic disruption. Yet despite the acceler...
A favourite saying of Uber chief executive and co-founder Travis Kalanick was that ‘it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission,’ but recent events sugg...
