Trust me, I’m a politician
Do politicians keep their promises? Have they ever? Richard Toye and David Thackeray give us the historical perspective, through the lens of an artefact from 1929.
I’m hungry. Whose fault is that? And who should fix it?
Food poverty in the UK has quadrupled in the last year, as the nation faces Covid-19. Luckily, footballers are on hand to help: but perhaps that’s not the best way of solving this? Sam Strong explores the politics of responsibility.
The Wages of Silence
‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity’, wrote Yeats. Penned the day after a violent incursion into the US Capitol, Homerton’s Bill Foster - an historian both of Nazi Germany and the modern United States - considers how silence enables destruction.
Turning the tide? Rhetorical lessons for Boris Johnson from WWII
Richard Toye recommends five lessons that Boris Johnson should take from his hero Winston Churchill, as he treats Covid-19 as the defining war of his premiership