James Kirkup

James Kirkup is Director of the London-based Social Market Foundation

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James Kirkup is Director of the London-based Social Market Foundation

The dangers of judicial vanity

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins

The man who destroyed Labour

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins

Of course posh people get posh jobs

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

Why they’ll never understand Brexit

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins

The Davos Man in disguise

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

Why Starmer is no Attlee

BY James Kirkup / 10 mins

What if it’s not the economy, Vince?

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins

Will vaccine wars destabilise Britain?

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

Why 2021 will be a false dawn

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

Boris can survive a cancelled Christmas

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

What Covid stole from Boris

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins

Is Christmas dinner worth dying for?

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

Whatever happened to Sir Vince Cable?

BY James Kirkup / 2 mins

Would Jeremy Hunt have done better?

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

Is it time to end the war on welfare?

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

What’s to become of the Lib Dem ‘cockroaches’?

BY James Kirkup / 8 mins

Imagine a world without the USA…

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

A portrait of power, warts and all

BY James Kirkup / 3 mins

What Dungeons and Dragons taught me about politics

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

10 years on, will history repeat itself?

BY James Kirkup / 2 mins

We’re living in the shadow of the Coalition

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins

Stop shaming tax avoiders

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

Why the English sacrificed liberty for lockdown

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins

Why did Boris Johnson survive?

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

Will the pandemic kill off libertarianism?

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

How coronavirus exposes our fragility

BY James Kirkup / 4 mins

Have we been played by China?

BY James Kirkup / 8 mins

Where will Boris Johnson lead us?

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

The Tories should have listened to Jesse Norman

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

The ‘green crap’ lessons of 2013

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

No wonder politicians won’t talk about gender

BY James Kirkup / 3 mins

What if everyone loses this election?

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

Why men should be banned

BY James Kirkup / 4 mins

The war on social mobility

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins

What if Corbyn ditched Nato?

BY James Kirkup / 8 mins

How the Lib Dems could seize power

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

How the poor are kept in their place

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

Five policies to get Britain back on track

BY James Kirkup / 4 mins

The future of inequality

BY James Kirkup / 4 mins

Too posh to fail

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins

What if Remain had won?

BY James Kirkup / 6 mins

Why the BBC’s Brexit Day won’t work

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

Can our politics survive Brexit?

BY James Kirkup / 5 mins

What’s killing the Conservatives?

BY James Kirkup / 8 mins

Five ways Theresa May could have played things differently

BY James Kirkup / 4 mins

Slaying dragons: Britain’s world-leading universities

BY James Kirkup / 4 mins

Politicians are in hock to big business – and consumers are paying the price

BY James Kirkup / 4 mins

Why business must break the curse of short-termism

BY James Kirkup / 4 mins

A plan to defeat Jeremy Corbyn: provide help to the poorer Britons he has deserted

BY James Kirkup / 7 mins