Guy Nicholson Articles

As Friday night’s extraordinary opening ceremony for the 30th Olympiad unfolded it drew a line beneath the first chapter of an equally extraordinary ten year journey for Hackney and east London. It also definitively opened the next. In what seems like the blink of an...

Having spent all of Sunday reflecting on the thoughts presented in Saturday’s opening session by Liam Byrne, Mary Riddell, Phil Collins and Peter Kellner, and as the stream of thoughts that were being shared coalesced, an invigorating sense of optimism and...

I am a bit of a progressive traditionalist at heart. There is something quite comforting about having a House of Lords around: it provides a bit of cultural familiarity and that helps to hold society together, but even my trad side has to admit that it has become...