Monday, 25 April 2016

Why the Left needs to embrace the monarchy

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Let's just take a king at random: King Arthur. It was he who was supposed to have, like so many politicians, taken exception to anything...
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Tuesday, 19 April 2016

The secret history of the Jungle Book

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I've never forgotten my childhood trip to the cinema in 1967 to see the Disney Jungle Book film for the first time. It was enormously f...
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Monday, 11 April 2016

Should we aspire to a Japanese economy?

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I apologise for the fortnight's silence, but I have been in Japan. Eating as much rice and sushi as I could. I don't really have a...
Thursday, 24 March 2016

The new enterprise revolution that Whitehall can't see

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What with Facebook and Google and Uber, you might be forgiven for thinking we were living in a great entrepreneurial age. It is true that,...
Tuesday, 22 March 2016

How services can prey on users

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It so happened that my post about the 'failure demand' generated by the disastrous attempt to automate universal credit happened to...
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Monday, 21 March 2016

The real sin of Iain Duncan-Smith (it isn't what you think)

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The unexpected resignation of Iain Duncan-Smith has got all the political comentators in a big tizzy.  The best explanation I've heard w...
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Monday, 14 March 2016

Do the Lib Dems need a big idea? My answer is...

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On Friday night, I was in York for the Liberal Democrat spring conference. A strange experience – no lobbyists, no sharp-suited corporate...
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