Published by The i paper (10th May, 2021) One of many curiosities about last week’s elections was the unusual success of incumbents. Historically, such events have been a […]
Europe / Politics
Is Labour dead?
Published by UnHerd (7th May, 2021) It is the great political conundrum of our age. Why are the parties of social democracy performing so poorly in many Western […]
Politics
The spendthrift at Number 10 Downing Street
Published by The i paper (3rd May, 2021) Imagine you had a choice of two men to run your family finances, maybe also to fix your insurance policies […]
Politics
Former allies expose the real PM
Published by The I paper (26th April, 2021) The exit of Johnny Mercer from the Government last week provided a perfect vignette for all that is wrong with Westminster. […]
Policy / Politics / Whitehall
How politics is corrupted by cash
Published by The i paper (19th April, 2021) Political careers all end in failure, according to a famous dictum, yet not all of those involved end up soiled and […]
Policy / Politics / Whitehall
Integrity? Public service? This lobbying scandal smacks of something we’d see in a banana republic
Published by The Daily Mail (17th April, 2021) It smacks of something we might expect in a seedy banana republic rather than a democracy that has long cherished […]
Europe / Germany / Politics
A Green light from Germany
Published by The i paper (5th April, 2021) Angela Merkel has dominated her party, her country and our continent for most of this century, but her long reign […]
Crime / Policy / Politics
The PM is undermining our freedoms
Published by The i paper (22nd March 2021) For five years, Global Britain has been a slogan in search of a meaning. Last week, the Government sought to […]
Covid19 / Politics
The dangerous naivety of Green anti-vaxxers
Published by UnHerd (15th March, 2021) When I was at university more than three decades ago, the environment began to take off as a fashionable cause. Acid rain […]
Politics
Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
Published by The Times (21st January, 2021) There is a maxim in politics that leaders are defined as much by their successors as by their own triumphs and […]
Politics
The double standards of sport
Published by The i paper (18th January, 2021) Maro Itoje went to Harrow, one of Britain’s most expensive private schools, before becoming a rugby superstar. But now he […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
The enforcer
Published by Tortoise (7th January, 2021) Soon after Tony Blair won his second landslide election victory, the Daily Telegraph interviewed five women to ask why they wanted to become MPs […]