The Budget we needed … and should have had
Getting the Budget right is a critically important part of governing well. If the Budget is well-formulated, it gives space to address the real issues; if it is not, then […]
What Matters in 2024?
The UK faces huge challenges on many fronts. For 2024, we are prioritising three in particular: Voters’ #1 concern – reversing the process of mass impoverishment, which has worsened in […]
Stopping the Slide
In many elections, the key issues are living standards and the state of the economy. In the UK today, voters are (rightly) concerned that their living standards are lower […]
Who is Behind the ‘Think Tanks’?
A recently published report from the ‘think tank’ Policy Exchange sets out what they would like to see in the King’s Speech. We have rarely seen such superficial and […]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Silver Blaze is one of Conan-Doyle’s best-loved stories: Sherlock Holmes has to solve a killing and find a missing race-horse – and of course he does both. At one point […]
Sunak or Truss – Who Shirks Better?
Liz Truss was the UK’s shortest-serving Prime Minister. Just over one year ago in the wake of her disastrous mini-Budget and seeing the state of the polls, the Conservative Party […]
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 […]
Safe in Their Hands!?
After 13 years in power, the Conservatives want us to believe that the UK is safe in their hands. This article explains how, given a just a few more years, […]
A Monstrous Aberration?
It has been widely reported that Conservative Peer Baroness Michelle Mone and her family had received almost £29 million from a firm on whose behalf she had lobbied. She helped […]
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 […]