Pieces by Tom Kendall
Fixing Politics – the Labour Government’s biggest task
12 July 2024
The country has voted for change. After fourteen years of Conservative government, the UK decisively broke with the outcome of the past four elections and opted for change. Labour, having made change…
Why the reaction to the sex education ban betrayed our political immaturity
17 May 2024
Politics has a politics problem. It is a striking feature of contemporary British politics that the political establishment is quite so regularly aghast to see ‘politics’ taking place. Or to put it…
The doomsters are winning. We must be different.
19 April 2024
The doomsters seem to be winning. If the world is split into two types of people, as we commonly like to joke, then it’s those who see their glass as half empty…
What’s wrong with our economy?
8 March 2024
As the clock counts down towards this year's election, all eyes turned this week to the announcement of the latest budget, to see whether the Tories had anything up their sleeves that…
The death of democracy?
2 February 2024
Are we watching the death of democracy?
The World at War
19 January 2024
It is hard to shake the sense that the world is increasingly in turmoil.
What the immigration debate reveals about the foundations of our society
1 December 2023
It’s never too far away from the headlines, but the past week has seen the political ding-dong about immigration return to the fore on your favourite news-sources. Three rather high-profile events all…
The Cenotaph and the Culture Wars
10 November 2023
Jesus once said: “Every city or house divided against itself will not stand” (Matthew 12:26).
The difficulty with free speech
29 September 2023
This week we were once again prompted to ask, “how much is too much?” thanks to Laurence Fox and GB News presenter Dan Wootton. Fox, who is no stranger to making headlines…