James Kirkup

James Kirkup is Director of the London-based Social Market Foundation

@jameskirkup

The dangers of judicial vanity

12 Oct 2021

The man who destroyed Labour

30 Sep 2021

Of course posh people get posh jobs

13 Sep 2021

Why they’ll never understand Brexit

12 Apr 2021

The Davos Man in disguise

19 Mar 2021

Why Starmer is no Attlee

20 Feb 2021

What if it’s not the economy, Vince?

29 Jan 2021

Will vaccine wars destabilise Britain?

21 Jan 2021

Why 2021 will be a false dawn

04 Jan 2021

Boris can survive a cancelled Christmas

21 Dec 2020

What Covid stole from Boris

09 Dec 2020

Is Christmas dinner worth dying for?

01 Dec 2020

Whatever happened to Sir Vince Cable? He should be on a victory tour, but instead he's gone off in a different direction

19 Nov 2020

Would Jeremy Hunt have done better?

23 Oct 2020

Is it time to end the war on welfare?

06 Oct 2020

What’s to become of the Lib Dem ‘cockroaches’?

23 Sep 2020

Imagine a world without the USA…

10 Sep 2020

A portrait of power, warts and all

03 Sep 2020

What Dungeons and Dragons taught me about politics

17 Aug 2020

10 years on, will history repeat itself? The Osborne Budget of June 2010 was not driven by ideology alone

22 Jun 2020

We’re living in the shadow of the Coalition

12 May 2020

Stop shaming tax avoiders

04 May 2020

Why the English sacrificed liberty for lockdown

23 Apr 2020

Why did Boris Johnson survive?

15 Apr 2020

Will the pandemic kill off libertarianism?

25 Mar 2020

How coronavirus exposes our fragility

18 Mar 2020

Have we been played by China?

04 Feb 2020

Where will Boris Johnson lead us?

02 Jan 2020

The Tories should have listened to Jesse Norman

30 Dec 2019

The ‘green crap’ lessons of 2013

20 Dec 2019

No wonder politicians won’t talk about gender

22 Nov 2019

What if everyone loses this election?

20 Nov 2019

Why men should be banned

11 Nov 2019

The war on social mobility

03 Oct 2019

What if Corbyn ditched Nato?

05 Sep 2019

How the Lib Dems could seize power

08 Jul 2019

How the poor are kept in their place

17 Jun 2019

Five policies to get Britain back on track

08 May 2019

The future of inequality

18 Apr 2019

Too posh to fail

25 Mar 2019

What if Remain had won?

11 Mar 2019

Why the BBC’s Brexit Day won’t work

01 Mar 2019

Can our politics survive Brexit?

12 Dec 2018

What’s killing the Conservatives?

29 Sep 2018

Five ways Theresa May could have played things differently

30 Apr 2018

Slaying dragons: Britain’s world-leading universities

27 Apr 2018

Politicians are in hock to big business – and consumers are paying the price

19 Mar 2018

Why business must break the curse of short-termism

02 Feb 2018

A plan to defeat Jeremy Corbyn: provide help to the poorer Britons he has deserted

29 Sep 2017