His tour of universities raises memories of another – that of by Keith Joseph, whose hundreth birthday would have fallen this week. It needs a modern equivalent.
Iran’s demonstrators are asking for reform, and all democrats should openly support their goals.
Yet the role of the Tories, under Churchill’s leadership, in the development of the NHS is today entirely forgotten, and so is his Health Minister’s contribution.
Just as the young in the sixties thought that they invented sex, so the millennials mistakenly believe that they invented disruption. But she was the arch-disruptor.
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.
“The language should be that of giving people their chance to succeed and of being on their side – a “people politics” that many practice locally but which must be scaled up.”
We must follow the example of Beveridge, Butler and Willink.
There is a case for the EU guaranteeting internal as well as external frontiers – which would make Scottish independence impossible were the UK to remain an EU member.
The former Labour MP’s defection, and the later split within that party, has not yet found in a parallel in our own turbulent times.
Supporters of a new pro-free trade think-tank will be told that Tories are all behind them in principle. But…
Two cheers for a measure that, though mostly about managing, dividing and taming popular opinion, remains a reforming landmark.
Unlike statues of Confederates in the US, the memorials to these icons of British history should stay.
Plus: UKIP goes nuts. And: Chapman’s tweets might lead you to believe that he’s taken some sort of personality-changing drug.
Get Heywood and Robbins out; get Rees-Mogg and Duncan Smith in. There is still a chance to reverse last week’s defeat.