For some time now, it has been apparent Britain is going through a profound crisis of confidence in its institutions, its leaders, and in its place in the world. There doesn’t seem to be anyone around in public life at the moment who has the vision or wisdom to offer us a way ...
Mark Fox reviews the new book by Tory MPs Matthew Hancock and Nadhim Zahawi, Masters of Nothing: How The Crash Will Happen Again Unless We Understand Human Nature. Much of the attention on this book has been focused on one of its authors' connection to the current Chancello...
William Hague was in his mid-thirties when he left Government and the Wales Office behind him. By the time he returned to the Cabinet table and entered the Foreign Office, he was almost 50 - an age he reached earlier this year. In between, the public world of this gifted, ...
William Hague was in his mid-thirties when he left Government and the Wales Office behind him. By the time he returned to the Cabinet table and entered the Foreign Office, he was almost 50 - an age he reached earlier this year. In between, the public world of this gifted, wi...
The Ministry of Defence is a frantic place. We are marched into a waiting room. As we linger, the door is flung open, and a bearded figure with a nautical air, bearing a faint resemblance to Lord Alloa in the 39 Steps, gazes in and clocks us. "No," he barks, and slams the door...