Can Industrial Strategy do everything Labour hopes? This summer the government will publish it’s Industrial Strategy. It will be plan for growth, for the environment, for security, and for regenerating communities. All things that the country urgently needs, but can, and should Industrial Strategy deliver them all? In this paper
Similar to ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Netflix’s Adolescence has brought to the fore of public consciousness a crisis that has been brewing for some time now – the masculinity crisis and susceptibility of young men to the Manosphere. Whether this can be turned into effective action remains
Farage image attributable to Gage Skidmore, Musk to TED. Licences respectively, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic & Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Over the past few weeks it has been reported that Elon Musk, not content with having purchased one election, is intent on replicating this feat in the UK. In addition to his
As the dust settles from the fallout of a second Trump presidential victory the process of finger pointing has begun amongst Democrats and armchair political strategists around the globe. One reason borne out of the initial breakdown of voter statistics is the gravitation of young white men towards the Republicans,
As Ken McCallum, Director General of MI5, delivered his latest threat update, he ran through the list of usual suspects when discussing state threats. What unites these states is that they view foreign aggression as a means of domestic security – attempting to weaken Western democratic states to strengthen their
Following the recent electoral victories of Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz, Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern, with further victories on the cards in Brazil and the UK, it looks like, after a period in the wilderness, social democrats are back. This is a welcome development, but all of the incumbents (perhaps
What connects the Partygate scandal and the ongoing response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Through their dismissal of concerns about the No.10 parties, and refusal to engage with the Russian influence on our politics, both expose an elite Conservative mindset. One defined by moral and legal exceptionalism which actively
