Russell Brand describes himself as a “comedian and campaigner”. While we might wonder at the first epithet, we can’t argue with the second. The man has built up a huge following among the angry teenage Lefties who dominate Twitter. His theme is that all politics is corrupt, all MPs are plutocrats’ stooges, and all rich […]
The current situation in the Italian labour market—if it can be called that—is a textbook illustration of all that can go wrong when bad economic ideas obtain a secure institutional home, from which it is impossible to dislodge them. On that cheery note, I have no magic bullet that can dislodge labour’s political dominance backed […]
In a profoundly uncertain world, menaced by manifest dangers and by unknown unknowns, there would seem to be an obvious political calculation. In such circumstances, it would be madness to throw over arrangements and institutions which have endured for centuries while delivering prosperity and stability. Yet a significant proportion of the Scottish electorate seems prepared […]
The Reagan/Thatcher revolution was much the most important event in peacetime Twentieth Century history. Though neither leader had read Spengler, both set out to refute him. He proclaimed the decline of the West. They pronounced an anathema on decline and set about persuading their peoples that the best was yet to be. It is important […]
It was going to be one of the great themes of the Thatcher era, a key part of what we saw as the coming freedom. All through the seventies, and as far back as the late sixties, we toiled in the Conservative backrooms trying to give real momentum and depth to the cause of popular […]
The young Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has announced that he plans to “change Europe.” This sounds ambitious. Indeed, going into this week’s crucial Ypres summit he had overtaken Britain’s David Cameron in the race to win over Germany’s Angela Merkel on EU reform, according to Bloomberg. Ian Wishart reports from Brussels: “Emboldened by the […]
Moving away from statism in India is highly desirable — but unlikely. At a panel discussion on “The economic agenda of the next government: is an economic regime change necessary and possible?” at the Indian School of Business in Mohali, I answered that such a change was necessary but not likely. This column elaborates on […]
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