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

Parliament

We all have a part to play if we want better politics

5 Dec

London blue

Forget the Red Wall: it is Scotland that Labour and the Conservatives must win back

28 Nov

Advent

Advent – the season the Church of England has forgotten

28 Nov

Thatcher

Mrs Thatcher can teach us how to govern effectively

23 Nov

Bregret

Brexit right or wrong will be a big issue at the next election

17 Nov

City of London

The City of London – Britain’s beating heart – is in a state of flux

7 Nov

The Yeoman of the Guard

Review: The Yeoman of the Guard at The Coliseum

7 Nov

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