We all wish we could mark our own homework
This Government is not telling us what we can judge them on – it is telling us what we may judge them on Originally published here We are a nation being taken for fools. The Prime Minister came across recently in his relaunch speech as someone who hasn’t had a proper boss in a…
‘Giving with one hand and taking with the other’ – an analysis of the Schools White Paper 2022
We used to just ’trust’ ourselves
Can things only get better?
There is a plot to remove the democratically-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and/or his wife
It shouldn’t matter where you come from if you want to work for the Government
There should be no barriers whatsoever to the State’s ability to recruit the very best and brightest for the roles it needs
Who will really pay for the Covid crisis?
Politics are going on as much as economics here
2020 – Will it spell ‘the lost year’, or ‘the lost decade’?
It wasn’t supposed to be like this
It’s not the teachers we should blame if schools don’t reopen in September
People are just scared at the moment in this country. Teachers are scared, as are their pupils. So are the parents of those pupils. And so are the employers of those parents.
Change our laws if you must, but not our culture
“There is nothing so permanent as the temporary”
Can Labour activists really trust Momentum anymore?
As their flouting of electoral law was revealed…
How will historians view establishment opposition to Brexit?
Great upheaval always precedes great change
The General Election result has electrified Westminster
Now it’s time to switch things up!
The Anglosphere
A Vision for the Post-Brexit West
Dominic Raab for Prime Minister
A leader to build the meritocracy we need
What does Brexit mean?
Why our use of language is very important
The Road to a Senate
A proposal for the reform of the House of Lords
This is how you deconstruct a democracy
It is an attack upon its very soul
The Sword of Damocles hangs above the hopes of millions in Parliament this week
Why Brexiteers must hold the line
Is there any trust left in the Brexit debate?
And what could happen if none remains?
The Malthouse Compromise
A possible solution to the Brexit deadlock?
Day One
A reflection on 24th June 2016
You need not miss us
For we will not be gone
Change: getting from A to B
The inconvenient truth – and bright hope – of Brexit
The Road to Plan B?
Paved by the will of the people – in 2016
The problem is: choice
The view that has constrained free markets, and free societies, for so long
De échte vraag in het Brexit-debat
De deur staat wijd open, maar wij zijn er toch bang voor…
Braveheart: how would Britain have negotiated with Scotland if it had voted for independence?
And how is Brexit any different?