Author: Christopher Gooding Editor: Prachi Saraf The constitution; two words that tend to send both politicos and ordinary voters alike into a state of idle stupor. And yet two words that in many respects reveal the Achilles heel at the heart of much of Westminster’s current ills. The fact that the United Kingdom has no formal written constitution means that the UK is, in paleontological terms, a dinosaur. In fact, Britain, along with New Zealand and Israel, is unique among m

Author: Christopher Gooding Editor: Ruth Lucas Two articles caught my eye recently. The first, a piece in The Telegraph by Madeline Grant titled, ‘ The Centrist Dads are back – and they’re smugger than ever’ . There, she decries the hypocrisy and self-righteousness of self-proclaimed centrists: “smug and intellectually lazy, they assume that the middle position must automatically be correct”. The second, Andrew Marr’s politics column in the New Statesman . There he details

Author: Christopher Gooding Editors: Siddharth G. Khare and Soline Germond Image 1: Give Asylum Seekers the Right to Work One of Rishi Sunak’s five biggest aims for this year is tackling illegal immigration. A problem that has repeatedly befuddled successive Tory governments and Home Office bureaucrats for the best part of a decade. Yet, as No.10 and the Home Office target their efforts at getting a grip on channel migrant crossings (the so-called ‘ invasion of our Southern C