The Ideas Lab
Eliot WilsonInnovative thinking about politics, business and society, with historical reflections
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Explained: how by-elections happen
I’m quite aware that my mother’s career in teaching left me with a slightly hectoring paedagogical streak a mile wide, and I’m guilty of answering questions people never asked, or answering them far more fully than the questioner intended o...
Sunday round-up 17 May 2026
The difficult-to-buy-for crowd today includes former Ambassador to the Russian Federation and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee Sir Rodric Braithwaite (94), Apple Computer Company co-founder Ronald Wayne (92), blues singer-songwr...
Burnham would: but the journey isn't straightforward
Wes Streeting’s resignation as Health and Social Care Secretary on Thursday ended a period of challenge to Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership that had begun to feel like the Phoney War of 1939-40. Hostilities were more or less universally acknow...
Sunday round-up 10 May 2026
Indeterminate number of cheers for singer-songwriter, improbable Glaswegian and self-styled Sunshine Superman and Hurdy Gurdy Man Donovan (80), songwriter, guitarist and 10cc anchor Graham Gouldman (80), design matriarch Miuccia Prada (77),...
Tudor Protestants did not promote an open, tolerant society—and never wanted to
OK, we’ll do this again.
I was rewatching 2023’s Firebrand, a film about the last years of Henry VIII but placing his sixth and last wife, Katherine Parr, as the protagonist. The essential storyline of the film is that Katherine, who has b...
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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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