
29 March 2019
Selling Out The Voters
The famous American author Mark Twain is rumoured to have once said ‘If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.’ The year 2016, though, was supposed to be the year where voting did make a difference. But the twin political disruptions of 2016 – Brexit in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump as President

14 December 2018
When Politicians Desert Their Voters
These days much is made of the so-called “crisis of democracy” in the West. At one level it’s hard to disagree with the view that even if democracy is not in crisis, at a minimum it is facing some not-insubstantial challenges. That yesterday in London 200 Tory MPs could vote to keep in power Theresa May, a Prime Minister who is

16 November 2018
The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 86 with Daniel Wild and Michael Ozias
Theresa May has finally united the Leave and Remain camps…against her. The government announces Robert French will lead an inquiry into freedom of speech at universities and we’re hoping it ends in a better place than the Israel embassy move. the Journal of Controversial Ideas makes us lose faith in the state of academic freedom but Dan Crenshaw gives us

20 March 2018
UK Is Right To Take A Stand Against Putin’s Aggression
Britain’s reaction to Russia’s aggression on its soil is tough and right. This is the type of response we should expect from a post-Brexit Britain, which is not bound by the lowest common denominator responses of the European Union, but defends its sovereignty, values and national interest against rising revisionist powers. Russia’s attempted murder of former double agent Sergei Skripal