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 ...

We live in a very different world now. The dream that the Anglosphere or the Commonwealth or – most absurdly of all – the ...

The Chancellor recently announced that he was inviting all Treasury staff to pitch ideas for next week’s Budget. Admittedly, I’m not a civil servant or special adviser, but if I may be so bold: ...

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 ...

Announcing his 1988 Budget, Chancellor Nigel Lawson said that “while tax reform is a simple matter for the armchair critic, it is very much more difficult in practice. It is difficult technically and ...

The announcement this week by Andy Burnham of a new National Centre for Information Defence (NCID) marks an important change in how we think about security and a potentially radical shift towards what ...

Today on Arguably, Rob Ford, professor of political science at the University of Manchester and the author of books including Brexitland, explores how a new voting system would transform British ...