Alan Duncan restores my sense of optimism
I went last week to one of those slightly random events where you don’t know anyone and you’ve been invited because you’re ‘interesting’. It turned out to be great fun, lots of people of relevance, and...
View ArticleFaster, higher, stronger: Applying the Olympics to educational attainment
If like me you are a Conservative or indeed anywhere to the rightward side of the political continuum you will frequently get irritated by the appropriation of the word “progressive” by those on the...
View ArticleiDemocracy and the Big Society
Douglas Carswell is one of the most interesting Conservatives I know. His new book, The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy, is very depressing to begin with but I’m assured gets more...
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‘Being in Africa now is like being the first ten investors in Facebook’
November 1984. Reagan has just been elected, the first Apple Mac has gone on sale and Irish singer Bob Geldof is sitting in a Notting Hill recording studio with 36 of Britain and Ireland’s leading pop...
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Equal marriage is turning into the 50p tax rate
I wasn’t really intending to return to the issue of equal marriage again; we’ve said a lot on it and it shouldn’t really any longer be something we’re discussing the principles of. Yet somehow, once...
View ArticleThe breadth of the EU with the UK remaining is what can lead to success
I have spent the week reading cogent and well-argued writing from friends and colleagues that I respect about why we should leave the EU. Some of them are so compelling that they have caused me to...
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