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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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, 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 ...