Douglas Carswell Articles

Time for one of my periodic pieces on reasons to be cheerful: 1. Alan Milburn. Julia Gillard used to joke with me that we were the two remaining Milburnites left in the world. It wasn’t entirely accurate, but perhaps at the time we were the only two ‘out’ Milburnites....

Britain’s elite is formed on the playing fields of independent schools and finished in the dreaming spires of Oxford and Cambridge: a statement of the blinding obvious and the subject of the latest report from Alan Milburn’s Social Mobility and Child Poverty...

This August has been the serious season. Ukraine, Israel-Gaza, Isis, Syria have all reminded us of the perils of an unstable world, while domestic extremism and child abuse have forced us to think about what sort of society we are. These issues have darkened the...

The news of Douglas Carswell’s defection to the United Kingdom Independence party today comes as little surprise to those of us who have been within his sphere of politics for the past few years. But more than just defecting, Carswell has resigned and caused a...