Ed Thornton Articles

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Ed Thornton reviews Andy Beckett’s ‘When the lights went out: Britain in the seventies’

Ed Thornton reviews Francis Elliott & James Hanning’s ‘Cameron: the rise of the new Conservative’

What’s been going on in planet wonk

Another dispatch from planet wonk

When the lights went out: Britain in the seventiesAndy BeckettFaber 524pp£20‘I have been hearing what was...

Cameron: the rise of the new ConservativeFrancis Elliott & James HanningHarper Perennial 368pp £8.99When...

Following Labour’s disastrous performance in last month’s local and European elections, Demos published a...

Policy wonks probably not by nature the most competitive types, more likely to be preoccupied by the latest...

The Tory party’s favourite thinktank fell dramatically out of favour with its Cameronite friends over the summer...

The next time the Fairtrade Foundation holds a parliamentary reception, one of the organisations unlikely to be on its...

While the rest of the world does proper jobs, thinktanks across London while away the day in seminars, roundtables or,...

School governors will be called upon to play a more ambitious role as they help their schools engage with the wider...

After a long, drawn-out Christmas season of drinks parties followed by illness, many from wonk world will have...

If Gordon Brown has not discovered his ‘vision’ by Christmas it will not be the fault of the nation’s thinktanks, who...

After a fringe-tastic party conference season, the great and the good gathered in London on 10 October for Prospect...

Neal Lawson, chair of Compass and a regular face on the Guardian’s comment pages these days, fired off a firm missive...