We should expect democratic systems to meet some relatively modest claims: they should be able to provide for the equal treatment of men and women as individua...
Watching the Conservative leadership campaign would be an
entertaining spectator sport, were it not that the winner will be prime
minister, even if briefly. Th...
Democracy is
a system of majority rule, but that raises the question of what majority rule
actually means.
In the last
decade, we have had three elections ...
Last year was the centenary of the 1918 Act which introduced universal suffrage for all male citizens over twenty‐one and all female citizens over thirty. Wome...
Forty years ago, those in the top one per cent took home
around three per cent of all income; today that share has more doubled
to around eight per cent. Aroun...
It has been widely
observed that something has gone awry with the Conservative party. Where once
its watchwords were pragmatism and economic competence, solici...
Most democratic governments claim to support equality for women, but none have so far achieved it. Even after decades of struggle and despite significant ...
We are currently in a political moment which could lead to a major
paradigm shift in economic policy. There were similar moments twice in the last
century, in ...
Speaking in the chamber is a challenge for any MP. However keen you are to give a speech on an issue, there is no guarantee that you will be called by the Spea...
Democracy in Chains first tells the story of the emergence of a branch of economics, or political economy, known as ‘public choice theory’ and most closely asso...
Gordon Brown’s autobiography is soberly written. It contains no startling new revelations, and is notably forbearing to his rivals and critics, including Tony ...
You’ve just published a book, Honourable Ladies, profiling every woman MP between 1918–1996. It features female contributors such as Mary Beard, Caroline Lucas...
