Have we Reached a Brexit Turning Point?
Ditchley Park has a bit of a history of secret tenants. During World War Two, one Winston Churchill…
Understanding Northern Ireland’s Latest Impasse
The Northern Ireland Assembly is again in a political gridlock, being prevented from forming an…
Tweet This: No, Brexit is Not Responsible for Ukraine
The Twittersphere has been vocal on the latest must-know topic: Ukraine. In the age of social…
Abdulrazak Gurnah is Right About Britain’s Dislike of Foreigners
Abdulrazak Gurnah is this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. His work predominantly…
Young Brits Would Love to Leave: But the Option of Living and Working Abroad Has All but Disappeared
Young, low-income Brits face a dead end.Whatever one's thoughts on Brexit, or on the European…
Hilary Mantel Is Wrong About ‘Englishness’
'Englishness' is an elusive idea. Could a 'civic' version of Englishness be the answer? 'It is…
What Does the Future Hold for Brexit Britain? A Conversation with Robert Tombs
A discussion with Professor Robert Tombs on persecuted Leave academics and Britain's precarious new…
Pride without Prejudice: Keir Starmer must denounce British hypernationalism
Hypernationalism is fragmenting Britain. In a post-Brexit landscape, the Tories are touting British…
How do you solve a problem like a former Prime Minister?
On the eve of Joe Biden’s inauguration, former Prime Minister Theresa May launched a stinging…
Broken Britain: The UK is now in unchartered territory
I defy anyone to tell me we’re doing fine. We are now in more than £2 trillion pounds of debt, and…
Spinning out of control: Covid is no excuse for passivity
2020 ended with despair at the Grimsby Town Football Club. Where did it all go wrong? In examining…
Is it really all Cameron’s fault?
How much of Brexit is really David Cameron's fault and how much was the result of circumstance and…
The music of Isaac Snow: Why we need to rethink our attitude towards those seeking help
2020, for most of us, has led to a slowing down of work, projects and life. But for Isaac Snow, a…
Why I’ll miss Dominic Cummings
I’m going to miss Dominic Cummings. Half-Kaizen, half-Kaiser. There’s always a hidden cost of…
What does Britain think of Biden?
Joe Biden has been projected the winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election, despite incumbent…
Is Covid the new Brexit for Nigel Farage?
Nigel Farage is back and that means we have a problem. The political world has been pretty…
Sitopia: How Food Can Change The World
In the intro to her absorbing book, Sitopia: How Food Can Change The World, author Carolyn Steel…
Are rural English pubs a thing of antiquity?
Rural English pubs are on a life support machine, and the visitors have long stopped coming…
What’s all the fuss about the Irish Sea border?
For my entire lifetime, and the lifetime of my parents (perhaps even my grandparents), there has…
‘Healing the Healers’ – Why we should decentralise the NHS
'We send the EU £350 million a week, let’s fund our NHS instead'. Remember that one?A clear case…
A move to York will hardly burst that Westminster bubble
Politicians playing to the North of England is nothing new. Multiple governments have been vying…
Young Brits need a new party post-Covid-19
Last week I wrote on my blog about how the government’s response to Covid-19 had been, to borrow a…
Who’s still interested in the Lib Dems?
There may not be a future to come back to for the Lib Dems. Now is the time for planning and policy…
What does it mean to be ‘British’ in 2020?
Following a 2014 YouGov poll in which 59 per cent of people admitted to having ‘pride’ in the…