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Hopi Sen Articles

Moral purpose or voter-pleasing wishlist?

Conjure up images of the good, and if you are anything like me, your mind will offer tropes as diverse as charity workers, saints, nurses, and Feargal Sharkey singing about love back in 1985. Unless you are a particularly passionate believer in the political process,...

The party of opportunity?

Conservative thinktank Renewal's new pamphlet The Party of Opportunity is intended to blow away the idea that the Conservative party is only for braying public schoolboys and hard-faced men who have done well out of capitalism. In the pamphlet 14 Tory members of...

Rebuilding the popular centre

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...

More chapel than cathedral

A confession, dear reader: I did not watch the whole speech. When I heard that the hall was to be in raptures for a full hour and 20 minutes, I thought of the soon-to-be-available transcript. I thought of the pre-briefing I had been helpfully emailed the night...
The party of opportunity?

The party of opportunity?

Conservative thinktank Renewal's new pamphlet The Party of Opportunity is intended to blow away the idea that the...

More chapel than cathedral

More chapel than cathedral

A confession, dear reader: I did not watch the whole speech. When I heard that the hall was to be in raptures for a...

Far from silly

Far from silly

This August has been the serious season. Ukraine, Israel-Gaza, Isis, Syria have all reminded us of the perils of an...

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Future first

Future first

Elections are always about the future. Tony Blair emphasised this point in his Philip Gould Lecture, perhaps because...

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Among the Tories

Among the Tories

Let me count the ways I am a rubbish activist. I loathe leafleting. I do not like bothering voters with impertinent...

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