Pragmatist

There are many ways to draw the political spectrum , but most of the time we talk about "Left" and "Right" as an endl...

So, another political 'party' season slips by and the casual observer would think the Tories' policies must be more or less ...

April passed in stunned silence on this blog because I was waiting patiently for the UK General Election to get real. Instead, our po...

With the UK general election looming in May, I thought I'd declare my apolitical hand: I'm hoping for another 'hung' Parl...

My appetite whetted by this week's local electoral melodrama, I've been searching for some Class A political journalism to feed m...

Oblivious to their economic plight, UK citizens are preparing to spend up to £10m celebrating the immortality of former Dear Leader Madge...

Having recently made the same point , I'm encouraged to see the London School of Economics setting out in detail some of the ways in...

In "India Grows at Night" the writer and commentator Gurcharan Das shares his insights into how India's growing, pragmatic...

Hung Parliament Three Labour Party conferences after the sun set on New Labour, and it must be obvious to everyone that the party's...

The Economist article on The Question of Extractive Elites certainly resonated with me last week, as it did with those involved in the s...

For today's post, I'm again drawn to the Red Book and the 'problem' of social housing. Remember , the game here is n...

The great challenge for political parties in a democracy is that they exist primarily to solve their own problem: how to get a majority o...