I've a feeling we're not in The West Wing any more. Educated technocrats have been in retreat against the likes of Trump and Meloni. And even where the anti-technocrat right are out of power, they ...

Ben Ramanauskas wants to abolish the pensions triple lock. As a longstanding advocate of it, you'd expect me to disagree. And I do, but not violently. Ben proposes replacing the lock with simply ...

People are falling out of love with democracy. In one recent poll, over half of 13-27 year-olds said they would prefer a "strong leader" to our curent democracy. A survey last year by Pew Research ...

Why are UK infrastructure projects so expensive, and what can be done about this? To what extent is the rise of the far-right the result of economic stagnation? How can we raise economic growth given ...

The government should stop billionaires making big donations to political parties; should move towards rejoining the EU; should fine polluting water companies more heavily; should make a positive case ...

Why has the Tory party abandoned the centre-right*? This is the question posed by what Lewis Goodall has called the "Powellization" of the party. When Robert Jenrick echoed Enoch Powell by speaking of ...