Thoughts on the UK’s future

It is difficult to know what connections to make about the trajectory of the UK at the moment. I still think it's fundamentally a path with a lot of risk - there is potential either for greatness or for ruin depending on who's in charge of it. The problem with correct interpretation and prediction is …

Liberal-Conservative Déjà Vu

There's a dark sense of déjà vu about this turn of events, as Boris Johnson joins Jo Swinson as a new party leader in the Commons. Some may remember one sunny day, in a certain rose garden nine years ago, when two fresh-faced political leaders, one Liberal and one Conservative, smiled and laughed and pledged …

On the Consequences of an Unrepresentative Prime Minister

Is the Tory leadership race still on? You wouldn't know it from the political atmosphere in the UK at the moment. Though the technicality of a month-long Hunt v. Boris battle trundles on, you'd be forgiven for no longer thinking that there's a genuine contest on at this point. For the most part, public interest …

Rory vs Boris

The results are in and the first ballots cast. Four contenders are out, with six remaining. Already Boris Johnson has more votes than most of the candidates combined, though he holds only around a third of the support of the entire MP electorate (330 in total). It seems impossible that he could fail - except, …