Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Carelessness in the community
Who are the “community leaders” who are currently shaping police policy in Birmingham?
Russian to judgement
Russia watchers are the real useful idiots
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
The goose and the golden egg
The City of London Corporation arguably survives for one reason only: money
Boho Ohno
Boho’s back, baby, meaning droopy, limp and dismal is the name of the game
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
World Government or Peoples’ Governments?
As the nation state system falters, we are faced with a choice between centre and periphery
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
