Crown

The Coronation offers a rare opportunity to re-set the national narrative

27 Mar

Archbishop of Canterbury

Justin Welby – Ten Years On

22 Mar

Parliament at dusk

It’s going to be a long week at Westminster

20 Mar

Downing Street sign

Budgets, banks, the BBC and the danger of insularity

13 Mar

Thatcher

The future of Conservatism is going to require a change in thinking as well as policy

6 Mar

Rishi Sunak

Rishi’s great gamble

27 Feb

Parliament sky view

The Primate and the Premier are both facing a tough week

6 Feb

10 Downing Street

Royal soap opera is bad news for Sunak and Starmer

11 Jan

Mid winter

Our finest hour is yet to come

19 Dec

Downing Street sign

Former Prime Ministers should be seen but not heard

13 Dec

Charles and Camilla

There’s no doubt about it the King and Queen are doing well

8 Dec

Reading list

Act of Oblivion

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

Greater: Britain After The Storm

Stop Bloody Bossing Me About

The Mirror & The Light

The Decameron

The Prime Ministers

Jonathan Sumption - Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics

The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle

Peter Hennessy - Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II

Tom Holland - Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind