Will Higham Articles

The appliance of science

The success of the digital economy bill will be judged on whether it can translate science and innovation into jobs and growth

Labour must again make the case for its economic third way

The current conversation we are having about political leadership is far too personalised

The credit crunch shows there’s something big going on in western society. Not that the commentariat has noticed

Remember the ‘third way'? It promised to find a path between laissez-faire capitalism and the dead hand of the...

It’s been tough at the top for the last few years. George Bush, Sarkozy, Hillary Clinton, the Archbishop of...

To be a newspaper columnist looks like a grand thing. It feels like the outmost limit of power without responsibility...

It is not that I don’t like hope. I am all for it. I am also a huge fan of change. It’s not that I don’t like Obama, I...

The Clinton Charisma: a Legacy of LeadershipDonald T. PhillipsPalgrave Macmillan, 246pp, £15.99Bill Clinton wasn’t...

Alastair Campbell is one of the few political figures since the death of Spitting Image to lodge himself firmly in the...

They say that if you can remember being a parliamentary researcher, you weren’t really a parliamentary researcher. The...

The prison population recently rose over 80,000 in England and Wales for the first time. There is every chance it will...

State of Denial: Bush at War, Part IIIBob WoodwardSimon & Schuster, 576pp, £18.99Bob Woodward made his name as the...

The prime minister, in his speech to Labour conference, ticked off some of the government’s biggest achievements by...

Many commentators have been attempting to hold the very public funeral of political ideology for years now, claiming...

To save Progress readers the agony of attending Tory conference, I can tell you now who the lions of the gathering...