As someone who campaigned for a Scottish Parliament in my twenties and voted for the Scotland Act as a young MP, I ...

There’s been no shortage of diagnoses as to why this has happened. Declining confidence in democracy is attributed to ...

Ian Dunt is the author of books including How Westminster Works … and Why It Doesn’t and Centrism: The Story of an Idea. Brexit was the future once. Not so long ago, in a way that feels fanciful now, ...

When I first entered the Foreign Office as a Labour special adviser after the 2024 general election, I remember a particular moment with retrospective embarrassment. I had seen the Commonwealth Heads ...

Today on Arguably, Glen O’Hara, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes University, returns to write on solutions to the universities crisis – a story that has been remarkably ...

In 1972, one of Michael Heseltine’s first tasks at the Department of the Environment was to help create England’s new metropolitan counties. Six were created in 1974, including Greater Manchester, ...

Today on Arguably, Daisy Christodoulou, the author of Seven Myths about Education, writes on the lessons Labour should draw from England’s recent school success. Every three years, the OECD publishes ...

Today on Arguably, Ben takes on one of the main arguments against the UK rejoining the EU – that we would get a bad deal. This piece is paid but you can read it now by becoming a full subscriber for ...

Today on Arguably, Alan Lockey, Keir Starmer’s former chief speechwriter, warns that Labour has left itself vulnerable to a Tory revival. To find out why, become a paid subscriber or sign up for a ...

Today’s edition of Arguably features an in-depth interview with Times columnist James Marriott on his new book, The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society. James and ...