Somewhat ruefully, the former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, once remarked that the National Health Service is...

The government appears to have adopted the Doctrine of Unripe Time in its attitude to a public inquiry on coronavirus: the time will...

How did the government mark International Women's Day ? It cut the aid budget. For a government which has asserted that one of the...

The most remarkable recent development concerning the British monarchy has been the former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull's...

Two politicians exemplify the continuing, rich and contradictory influence of liberalism in the United Kingdom since 1918: Roy Jenkins...

A reader of this blog, whose opinions I respect, has requested that I offer my thoughts on this historical problem. This request was...

Many years ago, a Chancellor of the Exchequer resigned because he had leaked details of his Budget to a newspaper. The episode was not...

Although, by the time I started writing these blogposts (in May 2020) Jonathan was too ill to read them, I had discussed many of the...

Quite understandably, many parents and pupils are eager to return to school. Many 'special needs' children, including those with autism,...

I would like to pay tribute to my friend and teacher the brilliant and exceptional Professor Steinberg, a kind and generous person. He...

Please read my last five blogposts and comment on them, and take your time to read the other blogposts. I know that there has been...

There have been many eloquent and cogent refutations of the supposed justifications for the British state's irresponsibility toward Begum...

The government intends to pass a law which will make it compulsory to carry a passport or driver's licence in order to take part in UK...

Trump stated yesterday that he would not found his own political party. Why should he ? He has already taken over the Republican Party....

Labour should make clear that if the settled will of the Scottish people is for a referendum on independence, that will should be...

If a government is in power for too long, it is generally agreed that it becomes complacent and prone to corruption. If its tenure of...

There has been much criticism of Starmer for avoiding the issue of Brexit. Corbyn was criticised for the same reason ; and Miliband, when...

I have renamed the blogposts entitled 'Reflections on Biden and Trump' as 'The historical origins of Trumpism', as this title more...

I made a remark on the change in political rhetoric surrounding race since Enoch Powell's speech in one of my 'Stirring up apathy' blogs...

Johnson wants everybody to think that he has learned his lessons, and that he is now more sensible and 'cautious.' In this, the 'useful...