Elections have a wonderful way of focusing a politician’s mind. So it is with Rishi Sunak and the Tories, who are hoping their Rwanda Bill will be their salvation come the general election.

A friend wrote me to ask, “Why is this mess happening on campus?” Here is my response. Let me offer some thoughts, as a long-time professor, in hopes they spur your own. Let’s begin with ...

When you are in a hole, it is always best to stop digging. That is advice Daniel Radcliffe would have been wise to heed in his ongoing spat with JK Rowling over transgender rights.

This week the Welsh parliament has been debating a law that would ban politicians from lying. Assuming it ends up on the ...

In the course of human affairs and communications, words have specific meanings, and nowhere is this more important than in ...

Given the universal forecasts of the Tories taking a proper pasting in yesterday’s elections, it is quite something for Rishi ...

Purging the left has been one of Keir Starmer’s main goals since his election as leader four years ago. His team has taken ...

Happy local elections day, one and all. As voters head to the polls across the country, the talk in Westminster is how bad ...

A big part of the social contract for a modern society is an agreement that citizens will grant the state a monopoly on the ...

Could Rishi Sunak be about to win the next general election? That suggestion, made at Prime Minister’s Questions today by one ...

Like others perhaps, I used to think that the ‘Resolute desk’ in the Oval Office of the White House was named to inspire the ...

The good news for the Conservatives is that immigration is down. It looks as if the net migration figures will not be ...