A Question of Trust
One of the central issues in British conservative politics at the moment is the question of trust. It goes beyond debates over whether MPs in general should honour the referendum…
Month: July 2019
On selling sandwiches
One of the things that sandwich shops - the sort where you get to choose your own fillings from a variety on display - occasionally fall down on is when…
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The Last Battle: A Great but Flawed Work
Spoilers for The Last Battle, other books in the Chronicles of Narnia, A Game of Thrones. C. S. Lewis is one of my favourite authors. He's so good that I'll…
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School funding per pupil over time
I've been wanting for a while to get to the bottom of what's been happening to school funding. Headteachers and campaigners argue that schools are on the edge of bankruptcy;…
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HEPI: Bridging the Research-Policy Divide
A link to my latest blog for the Higher Education Policy Institute on how research can more effectively influence policy. Read the full article here.
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Conservative Home: Three priorities for our next Prime Minister
In my latest Conservative Home article I set out three priorities for our next Prime Minister: Delivering Brexit by 31 October, with or without a deal.Promoting authentically Conservative values instead…
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Wonkhe: A Cap and Trade Mechanism for Student Numbers
In my latest article for Wonkhe, I explore the idea of a cap and trade mechanism for student number control, as an alternative to an attainment threshold or centrally-controlled number…
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On Communists
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a CommunistThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because…
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Why I’m backing Boris
Delivering Brexit by 31 October, championing conservative values and investing in front-line public services - and the only candidate who can stop Corbyn and Farage in the next general election.…
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The EU wishes to become a nation state
Here are the aims of the next President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyden. She wants to see "A united states of Europe – run along the lines…