Hopi Sen Articles

A cold autumn. Having reached No 10 in the spring, the prime minister calls another election. It happened to Harold Wilson in 1974. Could it happen again? With the opinion polls closer than for two decades and the Liberal Democrats weaker than in their post-merger...

George Osborne should be a prisoner of his own failure. He made the wrong call in 2010, tightening fiscal policy just when the economy needed extra stimulus, and as a result he now has a stubborn deficit forecast stretching far into the future, with his deficit...

In the wake of Rochester, the rise of United Kingdom Independence party and the appeal of populism across Europe, it is crucial for believers in reformism to understand and tackle populism. The hard part is how. I propose one way forward in a pamphlet from Policy...

Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage were political twins You will not find many references to Nigel Farage in Alex Salmond’s political obituaries. He and the leader of the United Kingdom Independence party are hardly bosom buddies. Salmond thinks Farage a backward-looking...