When British Conservatives look across the Atlantic for inspiration, which country do they have in mind? These days, it’s more likely to be Stephen Harper’s Canada than the USA. The Republican Party does have some followers on this side of the pond, but for the most part they’ve greeted the GOP’s choice of Presidential candidate […]
This week, employment minister Chris Grayling urged employers to ‘hire a hoodie’ – a reference to British-born young people often passed over in favour of more easily employable immigrants. But why do many employers prefer immigrant labour in the first place? Interviewed in Foreign Policy about America’s parallel youth unemployment crisis, Edward Luce – the […]
The Bible tells us that a prophet has no honour in his own land. As a man of faith, Prince Charles will no doubt be familiar with these words. Indeed, he might even be tempted to take them as a personal motto, such is his treatment in the British press. But writing in the American […]