The shrinking of opportunity allied to the visible influence of crony capitalism makes for a poisonous brew.
Has easy access to unlimited information brought about a new renaissance, a cultural flowering the like of which the world has never seen?
Hillary Clinton finds herself under serious pressure from the American equivalent of Jeremy Corbyn.
Anti-politics – that is, politics that challenges the establishment – doesn’t have to be populist.
It gets you thinking about why, as a society, we are becoming less human and more robotic and sclerotic by the decade.
When tabloids feature before-and-after photos that document the rapid ageing of politicians in office, we tend to put it down to the weight of responsibility. However, the heaviness of eyelids is also to blame.
Assuming that we don’t take the radical step of moving our capital, is it worth re-housing Parliament anywhere else than London?
My enthusiasm for opening up Parliament to the people is put to the test in a new BBC TV series.
The only policy promise that really counts is one that carries a penalty if broken
UKIP has become a coalition of people who reject the liberal consensus for wildly differing reasons
Penny Mordaunt’s parliamentary puns should be welcomed, not blasted by hypocritical puritans.
UKIP is, in both form and function a conventional political party
Political smart-arses should stop taking ordinary voters (and non-voters) for fools
While Brand’s vision of a Big Society for anti-capitalists might not sound like a whole lot of fun, it does represent a challenge to the mechanistic, top-down statism of the conventional left
An area almost the size of England is covered with safe seats. There are no compelling political reasons for a Conservative and Labour MP to understand each others’ voters.