With the Intelligence Security Committee’s long-buried report comes the revelation that the UK government’s approach…
Adam BarnettJuly 23, 2020
Much of the work of the UK Parliament happens in committees, which are specialist sub-groups…
Lit.July 17, 2020
Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. This includes sexual slavery,…
Lit.July 15, 2020
On 5th July, the Sunday Times published the findings of its investigation into the upsurge…
Lit.July 8, 2020
The Kefala system, the system of migrant “sponsorship”, is employed by countries in the Gulf.…
Lit.July 1, 2020
Since 2017, the Chinese government has detained many people from a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority…
Lit.June 27, 2020
After Eritrea signed a peace agreement with its neighbour Ethiopia in 2018, there were hopes…
Lit.June 24, 2020
On 19th June, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, Union army General Gordon Granger delivered the federal…
Lit.June 21, 2020
Maria Ressa, a journalist in the Philippines who edits online news site Rappler, was yesterday…
Lit.June 16, 2020
I was in middle school when I first heard about the Stanford marshmallow experiment, a…
Frances WeetmanJune 13, 2020
For many in the Labour Party and the country-at-large, our current prime minister, Boris Johnson,…
Josh AdamsJune 10, 2020
No-one could have predicted this. Mere days after UK MPs return to Westminster, a government…
Frances WeetmanJune 5, 2020
In the last fortnight, the Chinese government has voted on, and accepted, a motion that…
Lit.June 3, 2020
In mid-April President Donald Trump announced that the US would halt its funding of the…
Lit.June 1, 2020
Some things grow more relevant with age. Cultural ephemera come and go and are later…
Liam LiburdMay 30, 2020
As a Tory Party member, and as a somewhat older member of a prominent youth…
Lewis McNamaraMay 28, 2020
To understand just how weird the coronavirus has made reading about the Government’s finances, you…
Josh AdamsMay 26, 2020
You don’t have to believe that managing a pandemic is easy, or that there is…
Adam BarnettMay 24, 2020
American writer Gregg Easterbrook once wrote “torture numbers and they’ll confess to anything” - and…
Lit.May 20, 2020
Frank Lawton argues that our democracy relies on the theatre of in-person parliamentary debate.
Frank LawtonMay 18, 2020
When the economist Friedrich Hayek wrote his 1973 work Law, Legislation and Liberty, it would…
Frances WeetmanMay 16, 2020
Josh Adams asks why the UK Government’s COVID-19 messaging has been so unhelpful.
Josh AdamsMay 14, 2020
We explain why the Labour Party is being investigated for institutional antisemitism, and what will…
Lit.May 12, 2020
Lit debunks the strangest COVID-19 theories, because the best way to fight the virus is…
Lit.May 10, 2020
