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 …

An Absence of Negotiation: May vs Trump

It seems like a contradiction: one represents the ultimate populist, celebrity leader; one, the ultimate traditional, Conservative establishment. Yet both have held their respective governments to ransom over problematic foreign policy: for Trump, the trade war; for May, exacerbating Brexit. Both have reached for the claim to hold a people's mandate in order to override …