From Nasty to Nat-Con?
This article looks at how far and how fast the Conservative Party has shifted to the extreme right, and what we can do about it: Leading Conservative Party members […]
What Can We Learn from the Council Elections?
The results of the Council Elections are now in, and it is a good time to ask: what have we learned? Our take is that: The results were worrying for […]
The BBC: Balanced or Slanting Right?
We have been warned about this government, often not by the Left but by what used to be the voices of the Right: two former Conservative Chancellors and the editor […]
Why is This Happening to Us?
For many years, in the UK as well as other countries, progress across a wide range of issues seemed to be the natural order of things. Almost every year, the […]
Reflections on 2022
As we rapidly approach Christmas, instead of the normal letter, I thought I would share some personal reflections on the past year. For most people, and for the UK economy, […]
How the Light Gets In
After 12 years of Conservative government, the UK faces serious and rapidly growing problems on multiple fronts: 1) economically, 2) in terms of the financial, physical and mental health […]
The Debate We Need to Have
Our social contract – the ‘deal’ that makes us a civilised country – is under grave threat both practically and philosophically. And we are not talking about it. Practically, the […]
A Renewed Assault on Our Human Rights
One good thing Truss did in her brief tenure as Prime Minister was to shelve plans to ‘reform’ the UK’s system of human rights. Under Sunak and Raab, the government […]
Beyond Extreme
Since 2012, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss have all been at the helm of the Conservative Party. By the standards of the UK’s other major parties, of course, they are all […]
Human Rights? No, Thanks, We’re British
The UK Government has a Bill of Rights Bill which (at the time of writing) is in the Commons for its second reading. Many civil liberties commentators have […]