My arguments in Parts 1 and 2 of this extended blogpost amount to a plea for courage. There are those who will assert that the policy...

There are three other policy areas which the Labour Party urgently needs to address: culture wars, Scottish independence and Brexit....

In previous blogposts, I have praised Keir Starmer's caution as essential in establishing the Labour Party as a credible opposition, one...

It seems to have become one of our unspoken cultural assumptions that Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) was a quintessentially English...

It has escaped the world's attention that Cuba has dealt with the virus surprisingly well. It has a well established network of contact...

I know that many of you are yearning for a return to 'normality'. Please do not overlook those of us (with Aspergers, ADHD, or many other...

Many people have bemoaned 'vaccine nationalism' and have emphasised the necessity of avoiding it. But, in fact, for a long time, many...

The prime minister has, with his customary sensitivity and perceptiveness, denounced calls to amend the habitual repertoire of the Last...

Something which might in the past have seemed horrific has to happen again and again, and then it will be accepted as 'normal.' Human...

Amidst all the talk of the 'unprecedented' nature of this pandemic, it is worth remembering that this phenomenon has occurred before....

This is an update for a blogpost which I wrote in May or June on this subject. Trump's strategy for re-election is clear: first, to...

I do not intend to add anything to the numerous encomiums on Mr. Hume, but to discuss the wider historical context in which his political...

An earlier blogpost in June outlined my objections to this rotten and corrupt apology for a legislative chamber, and my proposals for its...

So Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health, has decided that the future of GP practices lies in online consultations, and that...

As a student of history with a longstanding preoccupation with politics, the relevance of the subjects covered by this blog to my own...

I was just listening to the presenter on BBC Radio 3 introducting a performance of William Walton's 'Spitfire Prelude and Fugue'. She...

The other day, on BBC Radio 4's 'The World at One', a family, whom we were told had mostly, with the exception of one member, voted...

As cultural institutions start opening up, please visit them. They have taken immense pains to make their spaces safe for visitors. There...

This is intended as a supplement to my blogpost on the concept of 'Global Britain' last week. If you have not read that post yet, please...

There have been a number of complaints that Starmer is becoming a 'centrist'. There is a problem with using the term 'centrist' in the...