At a recent lunch, discussion turned to the question of who
had been the country’s worst ever prime minister. The usual suspects were
rolled out: Lord North, t...
With the intervention of the Board of Deputies of British Jews into the Labour party's leadership election, antisemitism has become one of the campaign’s defin...
Marilyn Stathern, in
her famous article on the ‘Tyranny of transparency’, asked: ‘what does visibility conceal’? While openness can shed light on some ar...
What do the different wings of the Labour Party actually disagree about? Sometimes it seems like almost everything, in spite of the warm words about party unit...
Post-work politics, as
pursued by the likes of Paul Mason, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, rests on
the idea that the worlds of business and work have reached ...
The clock struck ten and the red wall crumbled, and in came the blue tide. Labour are staring into the abyss, if not already plummeting in it. This was a demis...
Alpa Shah has always striven to understand inequality, and how to address it. When we meet at her home in North London on a damp day in Autumn, my head is full...
Tony Blair consistently draws a distinction between the ‘politics of protest’ and the ‘politics of governance’. His politics mean he’s the ‘guy on the placard’...
U.S. President Donald Trump has long argued that NATO member states are shirking their commitment to the alliance. He has pressured allies to make greater mone...
The debate about decolonising the curriculum is too readily open to misrepresentation, particularly by those who see it as a manifestation of what they call ‘p...
For most of this last quarter‐century, the Nolan Report has provided the underlying ethical
basis for public life in the United Kingdom. The recommendations of...
Our newly elected prime minister Boris Johnson is infamous for finding it difficult to tell the truth. The general election campaign was littered with untruths...
