Is Britain becoming a synthetic democracy?
Graham Stewart and Dr Radomir Tylecote debate and discuss the extent to which the civil service has been politicised and obstructs democratic processes in Britain.
Challenge the consensus. Access rigorous analysis.
It is no surprise that the young are disaffected
Making a difference from your desk
The birth of British railways
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
