Keith Joseph Articles

The main political parties are battling for the mantle of backward-looking politics, writes Robert Philpot Theresa May’s first speech to the Conservative party conference as prime minister constituted an audacious landgrab as she attempted to portray the Tories as the...

The Marquis of Granby is a pub not far from parliament. A couple of weeks ago in its upstairs room there assembled a motley crew. The common bond was student politics from the mid 1970s to early 1980s. From Charles Clarke to Dave Aaronovitch, with Sue Slipman and...

Are there any sociologists among David Cameron’s advisers in 10 Downing Street? The answers appears to be No. Even a GSCE-level sociology student would have advised the prime minister against setting himself up as the man who will now go out and put Britain on the...