Our new Lifelong Loan Entitlement will give everyone the equivalent of four years of post-18 education to use over their lifetime.
If he isn’t the sort of person we should be erecting statues to, then it’s time to do away with statues altogether.
Europe has no Madisons to make the case for federalism, while the Leavers patronise us by pretending that leaving is without risk.
It’s one thing to acknowledge the fact that all human beings are nuanced and flawed. It’s quite another to censor our past.
This competitive virtue-signalling allows mediocre people today to look back on past heroes.
Unlike statues of Confederates in the US, the memorials to these icons of British history should stay.
So we need to continue to invest heavily in naval equipment – ensuring that it comes into operation, and has the manpower to go with it.
Undoubtedly, Britain played a terrible part in the 17th and 18th-century history of slavery. Its act later ensured sweeping political and societal change.