In 2011, I wrote The Courageous State, which was a call for governments that act with purpose and confidence, not cowardice. Fourteen years later, we still
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According to The Guardian: Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25%. This has followed
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Robert Peston reported Michael Heseltine’s words to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows: Heseltine has just addressed
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I struggled with whether to comment on the Conservative Party conference this morning. I did so partly because of this YouGov poll, which shows he
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As the FT notes this morning: Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy troops to American cities, intensifying a
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Having already asked this morning whether Reform’s policies are racist and having noted that most people in the UK think that they are, it seems
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As I note in my column in The National this morning (and I have edited the opening, very slightly), in the light of recent moves
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The debate on whether Reform is racist, or not, is heated and the subject of many claims, all of which rather ignore what people actually
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The Economist claims Britain is trapped in a “debt doom loop.” But they’re wrong. The UK does not face a government debt crisis. What we
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