The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
The wrong sort of difficult
Natascha Engel reviews Difficult Women, by Helen Lewis
Labour’s fork in the road to victory
If Labour appeals primarily to young progressive urban supporters, can it win back traditional working class communities?
Labour’s recovery will begin by returning to its roots
It’s organisation and closeness to community, not a magic policy solution, that will rejuvenate Labour
At the court of parliament’s aristocracy
Rank and rules are pulled at the Liaison Committee “super group”
Restore, renew or start again?
The debate on Parliament’s refurbishment won’t be resolved until we decide how much we want to change it
Two Britains
Former Labour MP Natascha Engel says the country divides on our relationship with HMRC
The Zoom Parliament is here – but hopefully not to stay
Remote voting may encourage MPs to be more independent, but politics is necessarily a team sport
A vengeful pursuit of political power
Natascha Engel reviews Unspeakable by John Bercow
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
