For the past fifty years, public opinion research has converged on a common result: that “the public,” as one political scientist puts it, “is overwhelmingly ig...
On 9 December 1968, as tensions were rising in the province between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists, the former Ulster Unionist Prime Minister of...
Dear Conservative MPs
In response to Boris Johnson’s Fixed Penalty Notice from the Metropolitan Police, most of you have apparently decided to support his co...
Immigration policy under Conservative rule over the last decade has been underpinned by a seemingly simple mandate to reduce immigration. Yet, ideologically the...
In recent years, something profound has been happening to the concept of social mobility. With the concept being reconsidered on both sides of the political spe...
Working people’s experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic have differed markedly. The richest ten men in the world have doubled their fortunes to more than £1 trill...
Has rape become de facto “de-criminalised”, as claimed by a number of women’s rights organisations?
There are around 128,000 victims of rape and attempted ra...
Pensions provision in the UK has been undergoing a series of revolutionary changes since the 1980s, driven by public policy. The Thatcher government introduced ...
Services make up around 80 per cent of UK economic activity. Prior to the UK’s departure from the EU and the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU was typically the destina...
A basic premise of the BBC’s long-running TV programme Would I Lie to You? is that contestants are rewarded for lying successfully. Commentators and colleagues ...
The Covid pandemic has raised hard questions about liberty and the role of the state. Many Conservatives have been discomfited by the answers that their own gov...
In the years since the referendum, it has become a myth that the impetus behind Brexit was a demand for pure sovereignty, with any economic effects being irrele...
