Rebecca Lowe: Gender pay, childcare, flexibility, robots – and the future of work
To my mind, once some kind of base fairness has been established, then it’s best to leave cultural transformations down to demand.
Rebecca Lowe: As Brexit looms in less than a year, here’s how to approach devolving power
To me, it is clear that the UK could benefit from greater decentralisation. But, to repeat, that does not mean that new arrangements must be introduced now.
Rebecca Lowe: Introducing FREER. For social and economic freedom. And why I’m a part of it.
Working alongside the Conservative MPs Lee Rowley and Luke Graham, we will launch in Westminster this evening.
Rebecca Lowe: More heat than Enlightenment
We must not conflate the progress that scientific advancement offers us with the idea that debate becomes redundant in the face of an increased awareness of scientific fact.
Corbyn, no joke
The Labour leader’s refusal to join in the fun about Matt reveals a sobering reality.
Rebecca Lowe: If May’s review is to be meaningful, it must shatter the illusion that all universities are equal
She will, today, talk of “identify[ing] ways to help young people make more effective choices when they leave school”. This could be promising.
Rebecca Lowe: I’d rather you didn’t go to watch strippers. But I don’t think the state should stop you.
Is there a going rate for such a job — which includes wearing a prescribed colour of underwear?
Are we witnessing the results of a political culture of careerism and instant gratification?
Should we expect “overlooked” MPs to rebel?
Rebecca Lowe: Keir Hardie’s lessons for Conservatives (and others)
And here we end, by reflecting on what he might have thought about Labour’s move away from the tenet of democratic government.
Rebecca Lowe Coulson’s column: Why it’s right for Britain to lose its marbles over Brexit
We should prove our commitment to democracy and the individuated nature of nations by promising now to return what Lord Elgin looted.
Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why over-policing undermines the police themselves – and civil society
Improving the situation means not only holding the police to greater account, but behaving more responsibly ourselves.
Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why Brexit, politics – and everything else – can’t just be about economics
A weakness in this book is that its support for nation states is predicated on disappointed economic necessity.
Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Luther voted Brexit! And other errors about Britain and the Reformation.
A decision like leaving the EU had billions of causes: some of those were set in motion by happenings centuries ago, but none pre-determine what happens today.
Rebecca Lowe Coulson: MPs shouldn’t inject political bias into the university syllabus – but neither should academics
There is a legitimate question to be asked about whether UK universities have been fulfilling their duty to provide a model of reasoned discourse on Brexit.
Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Scruton’s European ideal poses unsettling questions
What about those who worship different gods, those who delight in civil rights movements, those mothers who want to go out to work?