Blairism
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Keir Starmer – a Serious Man
Starmer lays out a future – back to “the third way”
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism