Pragmatist

For those driven to despair by the rise of Brexit Johnson (or Trump or any of the other right wing demagogues ), " How to Beat a Pop...

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

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

As one who loathes the use of party-political dogma to muddy the waters of sensible debate , I was delighted to read Tim Worstall 's li...

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

Whether you loved or loathed her, you have to be impressed that 23 years after she was hunted out of office Margaret Thatcher's funer...

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...

This decade is not going well for Britain’s institutions. The 2010 election did not magically restore our faith in a scandal-ridden Parli...

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

On Wednesday I attended the launch of The Faith of Generation Y by Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Bob Mayo and Sally Nash, which the Daily Telegraph ...

As an avowed pragmatist , I've been savouring Barbara Ehrenreich 's Smile or Die , about the tyranny of positive thinking. Barbara ...