The Ideas Lab
Eliot Wilson, Alexander HorneInnovative thinking about politics, business and society, with historical reflections
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Anger: the most difficult emotion to exploit in public speeches
The spark: Farage lets rip, Tice plays follow-the-leader
Nigel Farage announced his resignation as Member of Parliament for Clacton on 7 July, in order to force a by-election in which he intends to stand, to gain a semi-metaphorical v...
Sunday round-up 9 August 2026
Raise a glass today (or don’t, it’s a free country) to former President and Prime Minister of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma (88), multiple Grand Slam-winning tennis player Rod Laver (88), ex-President of the European Commission and two-time Prime M...
Sunday round-up 2 August 2026
Rubbing their hands at the prospect of cake today are former Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and United States Secretary of the Treasury (who presumably does know something) John W. Snow (87), novelist an...
Sunday round-up 26 July 2026
Today’s jolly good fellows and fellowesses include, but are not limited to, football player, former Sunderland AFC manager and Coldstream Guardsman Lawrie McMenemy (90), ex-Prime Minister of Australia John Howard (87), Rolling Stone Sir Mic...
First field notes on the Burnham government
With the United Kingdom’s sixth Prime Minister in seven years kissing hands on Monday and beginning to construct a checks notes “new political model and a new economic model”, not to mention the “new economy where we put life’s essentials 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.
Musings on law, Parliament, politics, culture, restaurants and the ephemera of everyday life.
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