The official blog of The Social Democratic Party.
Michael Taylor
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Family life has been under attack for decades, which is why the SDP benchmarks every policy against how well it promotes the family.
Andrew Bence
Kevin and William discuss the careers and legacies of Peter Shore and James Callaghan, two influential figures in the Labour party of the 1970s and 80s.
William Clouston
The type of wholesale attack on another culture launched by the German media would be unacceptable in today’s UK.
Camilla Wolff
William and David discuss how Britain's education system focuses too much on generating cognitive elites, the societal ramifications of this, and why this approach should be abandoned.
In setting up the Arts Council, Keynes conceived the artist as 'individual and free', but Arts Council England now takes the opposite view
Manick Govinda
The Orkney microcosm offers much to learn. Above all, there is a sense among Orcadians of being part of something bigger than themselves.
Joanna and William discuss how Britain has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic.
William and Calvin talk about the role of rigour in education, the danger of identity politics sneaking into schools and the inflation of the university sector.
Policymakers need to ditch their panic on Covid and accept that students should continue to lead normal lives at university.
Patrick O'Flynn
Denmark has in many ways ‘squared the circle’ of raising a lot in tax while not harming overall prosperity.
Dougie Jay
Neil and William talk about the nature of patriotism, community, the crisis of individualism, the narrowness of identity politics, and the need for humans to belong.
The failure to nurture common-good ideas costs all of us - but especially the idealists who try to make communities work.
Family, Community, Nation.