The Future of Politics
February 04, 2010 Mass. Movement? Towards a Coalition for a (new) Republican Majority - Brendan Simms sketches out a strategy Brendan Simms
May 11, 2009 Not enough self-respect: Theodore Dalrymple on what is wrong with our MPs Theodore Dalrymple
March 16, 2009 Rumours - Northern Rock: Jeremy Black asks, what did Gordon Brown know and when did he know it? Jeremy Black
September 22, 2008 Sacrificing the Prime Minister - Or what Carl Larsson's Midwinter Sacrifice tells us about the coming demise of Gordon Brown Jeremy Black
July 10, 2008 Cameron gets just tough enough on the fat and the poor - argues Richard D. North Richard D. North
June 20, 2008 Democracy's Inconvenient Truth: Joyce Lee Malcolm offers an American Perspective on the Irish "No" Joyce Lee Malcolm
June 19, 2008 David Davis's Resignation: To talk of Magna Carta in relation to 42-day detention is pure codswallop - if King John and his Barons were threatened by terrorist attacks, these attackers would unquestionably have been hanged, drawn, and quartered William D. Rubinstein
May 29, 2008 Tradable Personal Carbon Quotas and Privacy: Richard D. North explains why they would be an Oyster card on steroids Richard D. North
May 14, 2008 Gordon Brown - will he keep going down? Asks William D. Rubinstein William D. Rubinstein
May 12, 2008 What is it about London Mayors and Marxist Sects? Boris Johnson, Munira Mirza, the Revolutionary Communist Party and the delayed coming of history Michael Mosbacher
April 30, 2008 Richard D. North on the disastrous rule of the baby boomers: How 1968 ruined government - and how to get over it Richard D. North
March 19, 2008 The Long Good Friday: Brendan Simms reassesses the United States' role in the Northern Ireland Peace Process Brendan Simms
January 10, 2008 Gordon Brown: Down and Out? So It Seems - argues William D. Rubinstein William D. Rubinstein
October 26, 2007 Age and Baldness strike again: Cable and Campbell too bald and too old for politics - Christie Davies recalls less prejudiced times when democracy meant gerontocracy Christie Davies
October 03, 2007 Jeremy Black asks, will the postal strike scupper plans for a general election? Jeremy Black
September 14, 2007 Radical, serious and coherent - more like mainstream, trivial and patchy: Richard D. North reviews the Gummer-Goldsmith report to the Conservatives on the environment - Blueprint for a Green Economy - and is left distinctly under-whelmed Richard D. North
July 23, 2007 What Boris must do if he is to beat Ken Livingstone: Harry Phibbs offers some advice to Boris Johnson Harry Phibbs
July 05, 2007 David Cameron and Taxation: William D. Rubinstein argues that taxes under a future Cameron-led Conservative government will only go in one direction - UP William D. Rubinstein
June 21, 2007 Labour's Culture War against Muslims in Britain: a Matter of Honours and Honour Killings - A Personal Perspective by Christie Davies Christie Davies
May 01, 2007 It is the decision which has made Tony Blair unpopular - going to war in Iraq - that has enabled Blair to acquire dignity and become admirable - argues Richard D. North, author of Mr Blair's Messiah Politics Richard D. North
May 01, 2007 Our new national obsession with weekly bin collections shows what a trivial people we have become, argues Jon Davies Jon Davies
February 28, 2007 Olympics and the Dome: Jeremy Black on why the Tories should attack the government over its financial incompetence Jeremy Black
February 07, 2007 As the Heritage Foundation ranks the UK the sixth freest country economically, Harry Phibbs argues that we can learn much from the Heritage Foundation's public policy work Harry Phibbs
February 01, 2007 Confessions of a pollster - Harry Phibbs explains why working for a polling company as a teenager has left him with a deep scepticism about opinion polls Harry Phibbs
January 25, 2007 Harry Phibbs asks, does 18 Doughty Street represent the future of television? Harry Phibbs
January 23, 2007 Out, Out, Damn Scot! Christie Davies welcomes the repeal of the Act of Union after three hundred years and the expulsion of an independent Scotland from the UK Christie Davies
January 19, 2007 Eurosceptics for Cameron: Jeremy Black argues that Eurosceptics should support the Conservatives, not UKIP Jeremy Black
January 08, 2007 Military Discontents: the government needs to do better and the generals should shut up, argues Jeremy Black Jeremy Black
January 04, 2007 If the Tories are to beat Ken Livingstone, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson must run for the Conservative Mayoral nomination, argues Harry Phibbs Harry Phibbs
December 08, 2006 Johann Hari warns against the resurgence of anti-Semitism - or the new definition of irony Jeremy Brier
December 07, 2006 Litvinenko's murder - and our collective response to it - has spoilt many a dinner party for Alex Deane Alex Deane
November 21, 2006 American Tours: Jeremy Black reflects on the changing face of US politics and what it means for British conservatives Jeremy Black
October 26, 2006 The Joy of Local Politics III: Harry Phibbs gets down to work as a councillor Harry Phibbs
October 11, 2006 The commentariat are quite wrong: Cameron is no Blair - unlike Blair, Cameron is not running against his own party and the Tories are beginning to show that they can run things, argues Richard D. North Richard D. North
October 05, 2006 John Bew considers the New Labour legacy in Ulster - and asks what impact the decision to let Labour Party members organise in Northern Ireland might have John Bew
July 11, 2006 Constitutions are not enough to restrict the powers of the executive, a strong constitutional consciousness is also required - argues Michael Bentley Michael Bentley
June 30, 2006 The historic failure of "me too" conservatism: Christie Davies argues that Mr Cameron's "nice" conservatism has a proven track record - a proven track record of abject failure Christie Davies
May 30, 2006 Mr Cameron's "Happiness Politics": Mr Blair's "Messiah Politics" all over again? Richard D. North
May 16, 2006 The Joy of Local Politics II: Harry Phibbs on being elected as a councillor Harry Phibbs
May 10, 2006 What makes an anti-poverty campaigner steeped in working-class politics join the British National Party? Jane Kelly interviews Councillor Rose Thompson about why she joined the BNP Jane Kelly
May 04, 2006 Today's Ruling Ideology is not Neo-Liberalism - it is Neo-Libermanism: Lincoln Allison explains how Evsei Liberman came to run the world Lincoln Allison
April 24, 2006 Mr Blair Goes to Pentonville: Jeremy Black considers what Blair's reputation will be among future historians Jeremy Black
April 12, 2006 Can words be reclaimed? Harry Phibbs considers whether the term "right wing" is beyond rescue Harry Phibbs
March 28, 2006 What will Tony Blair's legacy be? It will be that Mr Blair brought Messiah Politics to Britain, argues Richard D. North Richard D. North
February 28, 2006 What can American conservatives teach British conservatives about the internet? Harry Phibbs
January 27, 2006 Why the West Lothian Question may become the key issue at the next general election, argues Jeremy Black Jeremy Black
January 06, 2006 The Future Doesn't Last Long: How the decline of mass membership parties has made Tony Blair and David Cameron possible - and why it means that both their appeal is transient Jon Davies
November 17, 2005 Politics Today: Jeremy Black on what the Conservative Party must do if it is to have a serious chance of forming the next government Jeremy Black
November 07, 2005 The Joy of Local Politics: Harry Phibbs on the recherché pleasures of being a local party ward chairman Harry Phibbs
July 29, 2005 After the Party: Or how the end of class war could give us better politicians Richard D. North
June 01, 2005 The Cost of Playing "Let's Pretend": an American perspective on the demise of the Irish moderates Joyce Lee Malcolm
May 23, 2005 Harry Potter and the Declassed Gentleman: Why the Conservatives remain even more unpopular than Labour William Coleman