Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Watch out when the Conservative Party splits...

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This post first appeared on the Radix blog... You can’t help noticing, looking back at the past century or so of UK political history, t...
Thursday, 6 June 2019

Breaking the rules to break the news of D-Day

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Noel Newsome was director of European broadcasts at the BBC European Service from 1939-44, one of the few who knew the secret date for D-...
Monday, 3 June 2019

The radical centre: a ten-point summary

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This first appeared on the Radix blog: “What people want in this country is action and not too much talk.”  Rory Stewart What is the r...
Monday, 29 April 2019

"So the climate's killing us, but at least we got to work on time!"

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This post first appeared on the Radix blog... I have written elsewhere about the uplifting effect that the Metropolitan Police commissi...
Monday, 8 April 2019

A sad story of Liberalism

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This blog post was first published on the Radix site... I found myself in agreement with Norman Lamb last week that his party (and mine) ...
Monday, 1 April 2019

It may be time to see the bright side of Brexit

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Let me categorise myself to start with. I voted remain in 2016, though armed only with the conviction that - if Boris Johnson and Nigel Fara...
Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Like voting against climate change

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This blog first appeared on the Radix website... I heard an amazing radio interview a couple of weeks back with two voices from the past,...