The Ideas Lab
Eliot Wilson, Alexander HorneInnovative thinking about politics, business and society, with historical reflections
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Sunday round-up 20 September 2026
Celebrating their continuing survival with varying degrees of surprise today are iconic actress Sophia Loren (92), versatile screenwriter, adapter and novelist Andrew Davies (90), hereditary brewing magnate and one-time United States Senate...
Our woman in Whitehall: the Foreign Office gets its first female permanent secretary
A new broom is needed
Last week, it was increasingly widely rumoured and then swiftly confirmed that the competition to appoint a new Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and Head of the...
Sunday round-up 13 September 2026
Cakes and candles today, with fire hazards of varying degrees, for animator, director, writer and producer Don Bluth (89), rags-to-riches businessman, philanthropist and media mogul Kerry Stokes (86), actress, producer and one-tame damp t-s...
Sunday round-up 6 September 2026
Today we raise a celebratory glass to former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (“C”) Sir Colin McColl (94), caricaturist, ceramicist and co-creator of Spitting Image Roger Law (85), biochemist, molecular biologist, discoverer of the...
The Battle of Mohács at 500, Christian nationalism and existential threat in Hungarian identity
A version of this article was originally published on the website of The Critic magazine on 29 August 2026.
The Orbán years
His fellow European Union leaders never liked Viktor Orbán, Minister-President of Hungary for almost two deca...
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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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