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Just like Cameron's Conservatives, the party of the immediate post-war era bought into the radical changes made by the Labour Party. It took three decades for a leader to come along who could break with that consensus.

The Conservatives should remove the whip from Theresa May to show they're serious about learning the lessons of 14 years of failure in office.

Reform's flirtation with the economic Left in order to pick up Labour votes shows they're serious about trying to win power at a general election. But if they were to win it, is Nigel Farage capable of putting together a serious cabinet?

Brexit, even despite its attempted reversal, was simply the beginning of the process of reclaiming this country. Perhaps in some respects we were going after the wrong target; since 2016 we've learned that all the forces that distort our public life are at home. Nonetheless,

Observing Donald Trump reminds me of my earliest researches as an historian, seeing through documents the politics of the court around Henry VIII. It's clear that Trump sees himself as a monarch and Mar-A-Lago as a palace: the use of the signature, the performance of the signing

One of the reasons Donald Trump holds a certain gut appeal to many people is that they can see the exercise of raw executive power in operation, and his determination to impose his will in response to political necessity.

Back in the 1970s, independent television was a world of fun, money and glamour. While working for Granada, allegedly the only expenses claim that was ever queried was a dinner we had in Manchester that cost £600, which was the equivalent of my yearly salary as a research fellow

I won the moniker of "rudest man in Britain" from The Daily Mail after a clash with the then Archdeacon of York on the BBC's Moral Maze. He'd just delivered the most flatulent diatribe against then Prince Charles over his antics. I've always been suspicious of moralism in public

The man who, more than any other, is responsible for the incorporation of human rights law into British law is the former Senior Law Lord Tom Bingham. Instrumental in the creation of Britain's Supreme Court, in a speech in Australia he stated explicitly that human rights law is

I reminisce about the prorogation of Parliament under Boris Johnson in 2019, and the astonishing Supreme Court ruling that followed. I was amazed then, and remain amazed, that the government allowed it to stand.

The purest example of rule by a single-issue committee of experts, as envisaged by Blairite reformers, was the SAGE committee during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was, in my view, a form of madness.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the British public positively rushed to give their freedoms away. We must be honest that a strong element of conformism often grips the country in moments of real or perceived crisis, just as it does in war. As the great Lord Macaulay wrote, "We know

This week, I've been speaking to Gawain Gawain Towler about the rise and rise of Reform UK, and what it is that makes Nigel Farage so effective. In my own words, he's a political "privateer". We also discussed the development of my own politics and, as a final thought, the emergence of