There’s more to Higher Education than the REF
Yesterday, British universities were in a spin. The result of six years of stress and anxiety, management pressure…
Jon Wilson
Poor coordination, broken models: why even traffic is political
I am writing this column sitting in a traffic jam in Dhaka, the car-crammed capital city of Bangladesh.…
Politics after the Big Machine
Jawarharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of independent India was giving a speech in a bus factory. Nehru’s topic…
How to challenge UKIP’s vision of England
I’d love to see a head-to head debate between Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage. Forget the Tories, with…
Britain needs to renegotiate its relationship with the real world
British politics is peculiarly dominated by the relationship between this country and the rest of the world. Margaret…
England is getting more optimistic. Why is Labour still in such a bad mood?
The country is sluggishly lifting out of depression. Austerity slowed the pace of recovery, but unemployment is back…
Dismantling Britain’s despotism
The fictional town of Dunchester is the scene for a right-wing science-fiction novel by nineteenth century author H.…
English votes for English laws. Yes, but is that it?
‘English home rule at heart of Tory campaign’, The Daily Telegraph‘s headline screams the morning of Ed Miliband’s…
This is Labour’s radical English moment – we shouldn’t miss it
Whatever happens tomorrow, things have changed. If the United Kingdom endures, and I hope it does, relations between…
Reforming the state is the biggest issue in British politics
Anyone who doesn’t live on a peculiarly disconnected desert island would recognise we’re living through a political crisis.…
