British politics

‘It is not easy to see how matters could be worsened by a parley at the summit.’

Winston Churchill coined the term...

How will the Eurozone crisis impact on the UK's relationship with the EU?
In the past, the UK has always insisted on keeping a seat...

The women in the suffrage movement were modern day experts on public campaigning, infiltrating hearts and homes with messages for ‘...

The 'Battle' of Cable Street which took place on the 4 October,1936 has become the defining myth of the East End of London and of the le...

What use are rights we do not exercise? Peter Bradley calls for a reinvigoration of our commitment to free expression and argues that ass...

Sir Keith Joseph was the most articulate and powerful of the postwar exponents of the market economy at a time when it was distinctly...

Tony Benn has been the most prominent modern spokesman of the movement for participatory democracy. It was he who secured the right of...

Following his previous lecture on...

Enoch Powell was the most powerful postwar exponent of the idea of the sovereignty of Parliament and indeed of English nationalism,...

Why did some idealistic young people join the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1930s? What was the attraction of Communism and...

This lecture analyses the crisis of trust and confidence which produced the Leveson Inquiry into the press and looks ahead to the likely...

The unique governance and voting system of the Square Mile will be explained.

Roy Jenkins was Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967 and again from 1974 to 1976. He sponsored homosexual law reform and the legalisation of...

Iain Macleod was, with Joseph Chamberlain, one of two great Colonial Secretaries of the 20^th century. In the early 1960s, he...

Tony Stoller, Chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, considers the relationship between popular...