James Longland
James Longland is an international development and sustainability expert with extensive experience in the developing world.
International aid – size isn’t everything
The 0.7% target has only ever been an incentive for more aid, not better aid
British self-interested aid
Is it wrong that donor countries should also benefit from their development aid projects?
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Why did the Eye look away?
Surely a title known for investigative journalism would be concerned by a series of trans scandals
A lawyer in Number 10
What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
When the Left thought free trade meant peace
Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
California dreaming
The delight of discovering an affordable California blend