The Ideas Lab
Eliot Wilson, Alexander HorneInnovative thinking about politics, business and society, with historical reflections
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Sunday round-up 30 August 2026
The Geburtstag brigade today includes multibillionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett (96), legal scholar, former Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford Sir Peter North (90), BBC broa...
Anger in the public arena (2): Harold McCusker, 1985
[Note: a recording of part of McCusker’s speech in the House of Commons does exist, on a double CD entitled Great Parliamentary Speeches, released in 1985. However, although there had been live sound broadcasting of all the proceedings in t...
Sunday round-up 23 August 2026
Today’s jolly good fellows and fellowesses include former Republican United States Senator and 36th Governor of California Pete Wilson (93), former Director of the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum Sir Roy Strong (91)...
Sunday round-up 16 August 2026
Today is the day of days for actress, dancer, singer and definitive Catwoman Julie Newmar (93), actor, singer, raconteur and baronet John Standing (Sir John Leon) (92), former Archbishop of Armagh Seán Cardinal Brady (87), journalist, iconi...
They haven't gone away, you know: the House of Commons and control of the executive
There is an exchange in the fifth episode of Yes, Prime Minister, “A Real Partnership”, which has stuck in my mind for the nearly 40 years since I first watched it. Jim Hacker, the eponymous Prime Minister, is discussing the tribulations of...
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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.
Musings on law, Parliament, politics, culture, restaurants and the ephemera of everyday life. Contributor to The Spectator, Prospect, and the New Statesman (and, by day, a barrister and visiting professor at Durham University).
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