Sitemap - 2023 - The Ideas Lab
New Year's Eve: time to reflect and look ahead
The Red Sea could be 2024's front line
Matt Hancock for PM? 19 MPs thought so
A Christmas miscellany: stocking-filler stories
Sadiq Khan's damaging flights of fancy
Toy soldiers: politicians in uniform
The two faces of foreign policy
Who decides what is "far right"?
Grant Shapps keeps the show on the road
Auditors agree to run the numbers on Rwanda
No-one's at the wheel: when the cabinet secretary is absent
Home Office reshuffle: tidying up or rearranging deckchairs?
Don't tell me what I think or why I think it
Is Rwanda decision-time for the House of Lords?
Monroe at 200: Does Monroe Doctrine tell us anything about modern US foreign policy?
Reputation: the luck of Churchill and the lens of history
Did he just say "shithole"? Cleverly vs Cunningham
Electoral change in the Netherlands is a message
The Black Crow: why Anne Boleyn won't die
The Kennedy assassination: JFK 60 years on
Rishi's reshuffle: observations in the margins
Boxing Cleverly: the new home secretary
A PM's department? It almost happened in the 1980s
All I'm askin' for is a little respect
Kenya and the UK: grappling with the past
MPs work a lot harder than we think
GB News: free speech champions or media manipulators?
The Covid-19 Inquiry: a bibliography
Whitehall vs the pandemic: nobody wins
Saying something doesn't make it true: reality is waiting
Remaking the civil service while the clock ticks down
Failing the intelligence test: Israel off guard
Jonathan Powell's view of the world to come
U-turn if you want to: why politicians can't change their minds
You may now NOT smoke: are we heading for a ban?
Braverman courts the party faithful
Russell Brand is now in Parliament's sights
The delusion of Theresa May's Downing Street
Ellwood jumps rather than risk being pushed
Reconciliation or amnesia? NI Legacy Bill
Running a Whitehall department
Starmer makes changes for the big push
Ukraine: realism, optimism or politics?
Change at the court of King Rishi
Miscellany: cabinet changes and Prince Harry
Late to the Peaky Blinders party and bemused
Ukraine's day of independence matters to us all
"The Good Nazi", Speer and Nuremberg
Congress takes the policy initiative on China
The dangerous machismo of "difficult decisions"
"He was the future once": is youth good or bad?
We need to argue better so that we all know what we mean
Tirpitz syndrome: is defence procurement broken?
Is the House of Commons losing its charm?
End of term for the Commons: sigh of relief
Reflections on 20 years in Afghanistan
Changing the guard: who will replace Wallace?
Starmer wants to teach children how to speak
Your host tonight: the honourable Member
Cluster bombs to Ukraine: who's right?
Health 1: Labour looks to the private sector
Third World War: will Russia go nuclear?
The New Conservatives: an unwanted arrival
The reds really were under the bed
"Laws are like sausages: it is better not to see them being made"
Reinventing Liz Truss: is it possible?
Part 3: Home as prime minister 1963-64
Part 2: the Tory succession in 1963
Anecdotes on PMs and kissing hands: part 1
Do ministers need to be subject experts?
Parliament engaging with the public can't be an empty gesture
Sometimes communications come by force
The public inquiry, our favourite panacea
"A Tory is a person who regards authority as immanent in institutions..."
Don't vote Labour: there's nothing there
The truth is everyone's responsibility
Dinenage to chair Culture, Media and Sport
Coronation reflections: what a weekend pt. 4
The blue pencil: self-editing is so painful
Coronation reflections: what a weekend Pt. 3
Coronation reflections: what a weekend Pt. 2
Coronation reflections: what a weekend Pt. 1
The power of the happy warrior
Anatomy of scandal: the bigger picture
A Gray area: the afterlife of civil servants
Me and my shadow: Sunak's new deputy
Getting the business done: after the CBI
Humanism: it's not what you might think
I'm not a journalist, and let me tell you why
Golliwogs and an Essex pub: racism in the wild?
The Irish are coming! Biden visits Northern Ireland
From a cloudless sky: remembering 9/11
Obituary: Nigel Lawson (1932 - 2023)
Defeated rivals: inside the tent or out?
Let Boris go, for all our sakes
Boris at bay: fighting for his future
We CAN handle the truth: we need it
Getting older has made me realise I'm a real person
The political comeback: is anything fatal now?
Sunak won't see the Cash over Northern Ireland
AUKUS: Britain's foreign policy vibes
Wake up, sheeple! The lure of conspiracy theories
Lee Anderson: tribune of the people?
Stop the boats! What do harsh measures mean for our politics?
Tories: focus! You're not helping
Don't be fooled by cynics: love exists and it is everything
Rewriting the Integrated Review in the new era
The language of immigration: how we talk
Deal or no deal: back to the Northern Ireland Protocol
Defence of the realm: but at what cost?
The strange case of the death penalty
Will no-one think of the accountability?!
One Nation underdog: the mirage of the Tory left
The Rishi Rishuffle: post-match analysis
Moving the pieces around the Whitehall board
Is Sturgeon in the final straight?
When in Rome: in defence of classics
Wanted: one chairman of the Conservative Party
Thatcher, Thatcher, leadership snatcher
"We don't do God": religion appears in the House
Politics exists for ideas, debated instead of imposed
John Biffen and reflections on the House
The effects of writers on writers