The auditorium may be dull but the fringe is not – as questions from our past haunt the future, such as: will the productivity gains come?
The Government’s scheme is deeply problematic and there’s a potential Commons majority against it.
And we’re all for a rebalancing – but Parliamentary government must mean Parliament in full, not just the executive.
The fifth of a series of pieces from Policy Exchange looking at specific issues that arise from the Brexit trade deal.
We wouldn’t want constraints on free speech imposed on the basis of opaque agreements between platforms and politicians.
If the BBC wants to balance its coverage of the culture war, it should commission this Oxford ethicist to tell the truth about Britain’s past.
Johnson and Cummings’ previous assaults on the pre-Brexit order have been brilliantly conceived. This one may not be up to the same standard.
It was promised “in our first year”. Instead, there will be mini-commissions, and a push to reform a Government bugbear: judicial review.
If so much, as Ministers suggest, depends on common sense, nuance, context and common sense, people will draw the inevitable conclusion.
The nub of the matter is that without changes to the law the entrants will keep coming to Britain.
The Government seems to be gearing up for a big fight over human rights laws in the wake of the Streatham terror attack.
The Attorney General is asking difficult legal questions about it which Dublin, Brussels, and even many in London would rather draw a veil over.
In justifying their defence of Austria’s ‘blasphemy law’, its judges seem to be not just expanding but changing the relevant protections in the Convention.
Law enforcement has been misused to target political opponents. We must be wary to ensure the UK does not become complicit.
A month after his tragic death, we must re-establish social norms around respect for people’s faith in society.