What is that cliche about the Bourbon restoration - learned nothing and forgotten nothing?  This certainly applies to American policy wonks...

I have been weighing up whether the Labour Party is worth the candle after around nine months of re-engagement, having, once again, observ...

Part of the pro-European Union pitch relies on the promotion, mostly from Marxist intellectuals and fellow-travellers in the Academy, of a n...

I saw a smidgeon, but only a smidgeon, of what Iain Duncan Smith has recently been talking about (‘bullying and threats’ from the anti-Brexi...

One of my more curious intellectual habits is to avoid reading contemporary work by public intellectuals and prefer instead to study materia...