Will the United Kingdom exit the European Union? There is the distinct possibility that the answer to that question will depend on how long it takes for a decision to be taken.  The main...

Turns out that the neighbour you hated and complained incessantly about isn’t really all that bad and actually rather important to your personal growth if you had to admit it.   As...

Political analysts are giving different readings to the Brexit result. However, I am struck by one particular study, which sought to explain it through age cohorts. The analysis stated that senior...

Suppose Brexit had not turned out to be the worst living nightmare in recent European political history. Suppose the Panama Papers scandal had not erupted at all. Do you have any doubt what we would...

Quite frankly, I don’t know how David Cameron is still upright, unless he is one of those men who have that impressive ability to take no blame for any of the consequences of their actions, see...

Do polls mean anything any more? In the last general elections in the UK, they forecasted everything the wrong way round. Similarly and more dangerously, when it came to the results of the...

I caught up with Dr Maureen Cole, Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing a couple of weeks ago to try and recognise better how she understands the social sector and how the Faculty she has been...

European Union sceptics in Britain must have danced the night away after it was confirmed that the leave camp has secured a result which will end Britain’s EU membership.  It was a night of...

The British never accepted the fact that they are no longer an empire. They believe they can still rule the world as they used to do in the past, and they keep the Commonwealth up and running in spite...

At the end, the majority of the British people decided in favour of leaving the EU. I am one of those who did not expect, but were not surprised by, the result. Not least because I had heard how the...