This is UK tertiary education, Jim, but not as we know it. It embodies a radical new approach based on the best global practice.
We will take part in this new programme – designed to ensure that infrastructure projects are delivered on time and within their allotted budget.
One essential Bank of England chart illustrates what went wrong, beyond reasonable doubt.
If you believe in this idea of conservatism; if you want new faces at the table; if you share these ambitions, then please say so.
We need to renew that belief, that self-belief, and that optimism – about people, about society, about freedom and about human life – more than ever.
And four proposals for reform, should we vote to Remain.
The full text of his Inaugural Lecture to the Bingham Constitutional Studies Programme at Balliol College, Oxford.
A modernised internal structure, increased transparency, and oversight by Ofcom will help keep ‘Auntie’ fit for the coming decade.
His critique of the teaching of politics is a simple one. In his view, it is not a mode of experience. So the language of politics is not genuinely a language of explanation.
It is neither paternalistic nor libertarian, but grounded in a “compassionate conservatism” whose roots lie in Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.
All of this £6,187,788 seems to go from the Co-op to subsidise the Labour Party. How many Co-op members would approve of this if asked?
A Grand Coalition of the CDU/CSU and the SPD remains the most likely outcome. But the SPD will not go in with much if any enthusiasm.
There is no doubt that many areas of our economy are still in the grip of crony capitalism. The social anger Ed Miliband is trying to tap into is real.
Jesse Norman is the Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire. His new biography of Edmund Burke was published recently. Follow Jesse on Twitter Last Saturday, I was honoured to be the after-dinner speaker at the Conservative Renewal Conference in Windsor. What follows is based in part on what I said then, minus quite a few jokes. "Ladies […]
Points of parliamentary procedure may seem arcane to journalists and the public, but their fair enforcement is vital to the proper functioning of our democracy.