The time of land-taxing Liberals has long gone. The Liberal Democrats are on the side of the farmers who gathered in Westminster last week to protest against the Government’s changes to Agricultural Property Relief in the Autumn Budget – mandating that estates valued at over £1m – previously…
I wrote last week that the Chancellor Reeves’ Autumn Budget offered little in the way of the reform much needed in our education sector. Well, it seems that what is “thin gruel” for education is not much better for our health and social care sector. The Impact of…
On Monday the government announced that university tuition fees will rise to a maximum of £9,535. This is a stark contrast from one of Starmer’s2020 leadership campaign pledges to abolish tuition fees, and once again we are returned to the issue of higher education funding and addressing the elephant…
Why our new Chancellor has made the right decision on the road to repairing the public finances The 2024 budget under Chancellor Rachel Reeves marks a pivotal moment in the UK’s fiscal policy, balancing the urgent need for public service…
Re-visiting Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld: Mile End Institute Hennessy Lecture On Wednesday I had the privilege of attending the Mile End Institute’s Hennessy lecture with Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireworld: How British Imperialism has Shaped the Globe, and Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. A brief introduction…
I’ve written before that the politics of the far right, or, more accurately, the politics of hate, is easy. It is easy to hate, rather than endeavour to possess all the facts, to understand, to debate, to reason…to listen. It…
It’s 2014, and the coalition government is publishing its “Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in schools” (catchy) advice for school leaders. It’s intention? To cement the teaching of British values into the spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development of…
Well, they listened. Almost a month ago I wrote that the House of Lords need not be replaced but revamped to be “fit for the new age we are tumbling into”. Just days ago the ministers introduced a bill to finally rid the upper chamber of the 92 remaining…
For-you-page politics. We now live in an age where many young peoples’ views are determined by algorithms and whatever their peers are thinking and discussing about on social media platforms, particularly Instagram and TikTok. This is pushing us to turn…