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Blair’s devolution experiment is broken – and someone needs to say so
The ‘Burnham effect’ that propelled Labour to victory in Makerfield is only the latest example of regional and devolved democratic leaders who are miles more popular than their opposite numbers in Westminster. Political talents as diverse as Boris Johnson and Alex Salmond…
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Britain needs a brand new tax system
The battle of essays between Labour Party grandees has given British politics a distinctly retro feel over the last week, as Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham behaved like competing 18th-century pamphleteers explaining in earnest detail why things will only get…
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The Truth Is Out There….
One of the most striking aspects of the revelations in ‘Get In’, the brilliant book by Times journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire on Keir Starmer’s rise to power, is how uninterested the Prime Minister is in the wider world,…
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Britain isn’t ‘ungovernable’: it’s badly led
The 6-7 craze is about to turn from a meaningless, but ultimately fun, meme into something decidedly more serious: the number of UK Prime Ministers in the last 10 years. British firms and families are battling spiralling energy bills while our…
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We need to talk about addiction
Even though the final local election results won’t be declared for a while yet, it’s clear there are glum faces in our two traditionally-biggest parties, an enormous trademark grin from Nigel Farage at Reform UK, and that Zack Polanski’s Greens…
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Top Bosses are singing our song….
One of Britain’s top business leaders, CEO of Next Lord Wolfson, came up with recommendations which are strikingly similar to ours at the Centre for Policy Studies annual Thatcher conference
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More ‘West Wing’ & less ‘The Thick Of It’ please…..
Anyone who’s ever watched ‘The West Wing’ knows it’s only fiction, but wishes it wasn’t. It’s a glowing picture of how government ought to work. But as the never-ending fallout from Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US shows, the reality is often…
