Harold Wilson
Here we go again
The striking similarities between the tired, unoriginal politics of our age and those of the turbulent 1970s
Labour’s reluctant royalists
How Labour leaders from Wilson to Starmer fell for The Queen
This is Starmer’s chance
He could be the next Harold Wilson
One year of Sir Keir
How does Starmer compare to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron?
Budget 2021: What did we get?
Rishi goes back to tax and spend
How I discovered History
Remembering the Six Day War and history lessons from Dick Crossman
Fifty years on: the battle to elect Britain’s first black MP
Dr David Pitt’s experience is now largely forgotten. It shouldn’t be.
Do Prime Ministers lose their seats?
There is no special place in the British electoral system for party leaders
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
The curious incuriosity of multiculturalists
We cannot blind ourselves to differences between people
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
