6 days ago · The government should stop billionaires making big donations to political parties; should move towards rejoining the EU; should fine polluting water companies more heavily; …

21 hours ago · People are falling out of love with democracy. In one recent poll, over half of 13-27 year-olds said they would prefer a "strong leader" to our curent democracy.A survey last year …

Jan 6, 2025 · The government should stop billionaires making big donations to political parties; should move towards rejoining the EU; should fine polluting water companies more heavily; …

21 hours ago · People are falling out of love with democracy. In one recent poll, over half of 13-27 year-olds said they would prefer a "strong leader" to our curent democracy.A survey last year …

Jan 11, 2025 · Immigration isn't purely a left/right issue any longer. Whilst immigration itself is neither intrinsically good nor bad, the questions are around historically unprecedented …

5 days ago · I've a feeling we're not in The West Wing any more. Educated technocrats have been in retreat against the likes of Trump and Meloni. And even where the anti-technocrat …

Jan 30, 2023 · In the first pages of After Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre imagines people trying to revive science after it has been destroyed by catastrophes and know-nothing governments. They …

Sep 27, 2022 · There's a paradox: Liz Truss's government contains many members who claim to be free marketeers, and yet the first policy of her premiership has been to freeze energy prices …

Oct 28, 2021 · One of the great political changes of my adult lifetime has been the right’s abandonment of free market economics, as illustrated by the government imposing trade …

Oct 26, 2023 · What fraction of the $10 trillion transacted by JP Morgan daily is for real goods and services? If the overwhelming majority of money these days is spent on financial goods, why …