It seldom occurs to this author that the best way to deal with fashionable absurdities is to laugh at them, and trust in the public’s common sense.
The great documentary maker offers a delightfully brief and unportentous survey of British leaders from Wilson to Johnson
Keynesian Macmillan got through four Chancellors in six years. We hope that Boosterist Johnson, who’s already lost one, doesn’t see this as a precedent.
We should take pride in seven decades of refugee protection, and it is a principle we must uphold in the future too.
The fourth part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.
His archivist writes that this agreement has succeeded…in recovering powers which some thought had been lost permanently”.
Whether writing, speaking or negotiating, he puts on a performance which the spectators enjoy all the more because it horrifies the guardians of convention.
Let’s have a no-holds-barred strategic review which asks how we can best defend our interests given the vertiginous acceleration of military technology.
A true “colour blind” non-discrimination law is needed, with the rights of each individual valued and respected.
We give you divorce reform, abortion law in Northern Ireland, citizenship rights for three million Hong Kongers, and the rainbow flag.
Four decades on, history seems likely to vindicate those who warned that devolution would undermine the United Kingdom.
But these demonstrations, which cannot uphold social distancing, will have a catastrophic impact on our collective fight against the virus.
The consequences for the international order have been debated for decades, but, in contrast, little attention has been paid to this area.