‘Andynomics’ is just managed decline with a smile
It was during the Great Depression that then US president Franklin D Roosevelt coined the phrase the ‘first 100 days’. In a national radio address three months into his presidency…
It was during the Great Depression that then US president Franklin D Roosevelt coined the phrase the ‘first 100 days’. In a national radio address three months into his presidency…
Britain has become very good at talking about compassion. We’re much less good at actually delivering it. Which is why, whenever you visit parliament, you’ll probably find people sleeping on…
Ten years ago, the Brexit referendum tried and failed to settle Britain’s relationship with the EU. We are now in limbo, unable to decide what we want or why. That…
‘Compare us with every other party in the House of Commons today and we’re easily the most united, with the biggest smile on our face’, Ed Davey informed the Financial…
The exhaustion of Keir Starmer’s Labour government has certainly been far quicker than that of the New Labour administrations of the 1990s and 2000s. But the parallels are unmistakable. Both…
It has been a longstanding gripe of the Welsh that they exist on the political as well as geographic fringe of the UK. A debate on BBC Radio Wales at…
They say parties get the leaders they deserve. Enter stage left: Zack Polanski. The man the crank left has been waiting for. The Green Party frontman whose unstoppable rise this…
It was an unremarkable evening in Bruges, Belgium, on 20 September 1988. The then British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was standing before the College of Europe. It was there that…
As Labour’s annual party conference in Liverpool gets under way, chancellor Rachel Reeves will have one eye on 26 November. That is when she will deliver what some are calling…
For Britain’s ‘progressive’, leftish elites, the idea of a wealth tax has become a panacea for all our social and economic woes. Levied on the total value of an individual’s…