The Ideas Lab
Eliot WilsonInnovative thinking about politics, business and society, with historical reflections
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Sunday round-up 7 June 2026
Receiving the bumps today (careful with some of them) are director, screenwriter, producer and period drama titan James Ivory (98), actress and author Virginia McKenna (95), weapons-grade Welshness-toting musical legend Sir Tom Jones (86),...
Defence digest: things are not going well
Making the Strategic Defence Review a reality
Regular readers will have intuited that one of the things which irritates me beyond measure is the current government’s habit of blithely saying that everything is going well and simply re...
Sunday round-up 31 May 2026
Today’s birthdayists include Academy Award-winning actor, director and producer Clint Eastwood (96), human rights activist, author and long-time hostage Sir Terry Waite (87), actress Sharon Gless (83), model and Pineapple Dance Studios foun...
Electing the House of Commons
Appetite for change?
As the mercury has risen and brains have overheated, the gossip and speculation surrounding the leadership of the Labour Party and the likely fate of Sir Keir Starmer if Andy Burnham is elected a Member of Parliam...
Boys, girls and NEETs: Alan Milburn's review of Young People and Work is pending
[This began as the first item in a digest of news stories, but the more I read, thought and wrote, the more there seemed to be to say, hence its translation into a stand-alone essay. The other stories will have to wait their turn.]
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Writer, commentator, historian: Senior Fellow for National Security, Coalition for Global Prosperity; Contributing Editor, Defence On The Brink. Politics, Parliament, constitution; defence, security; co-founder, CulturAll. Ex-House of Commons clerk.
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