by Bernadette Meaden | Jul 24, 2021 | Commentary
THE COLLEGE which provides training for civil servants has just introduced a new course. ‘From Backbencher To Minister’ aims to give new ministers the skills to manage a department with hundreds of employees and a budget of billions. Some might think this is long...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jun 26, 2021 | Commentary
ACCORDING to George Orwell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a book everyone should read. It is often named by people on the left as the book which has had the greatest influence on their politics. However, there is no denying that unlike Animal Farm or 1984,...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jun 5, 2021 | Commentary
IN 2019, RESEARCHERS at the University of Sheffield argued persuasively that the UK may be going through a process of ‘undevelopment’, which they defined as “the dismantling, rather than the building, of a viable, functioning political economy that...
by Bernadette Meaden | May 9, 2021 | Commentary
AT THE 1977 CCONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE, 16-year-old William Hague made a speech in which he conjured up what he feared was the imminent and dreadful prospect of a “Socialist Britain”. With Margaret Thatcher and many delegates captivated by the rare...
by Bernadette Meaden | Apr 19, 2021 | Commentary
LAST MONTH, a year after the UK went into lockdown and on the very morning that a judicial review on the matter was about to begin, Matt Hancock’s department agreed, “To consider how information on shielding can be given in an accessible format to disabled people...
