James Kirkup

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

@jameskirkup

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

The dangers of judicial vanity

James Kirkup

12 Oct 2021

The man who destroyed Labour

James Kirkup

30 Sep 2021

Of course posh people get posh jobs

James Kirkup

13 Sep 2021

Why they’ll never understand Brexit

James Kirkup

12 Apr 2021

The Davos Man in disguise

James Kirkup

19 Mar 2021

Why Starmer is no Attlee

James Kirkup

20 Feb 2021

What if it’s not the economy, Vince?

James Kirkup

29 Jan 2021

Will vaccine wars destabilise Britain?

James Kirkup

21 Jan 2021

Why 2021 will be a false dawn

James Kirkup

04 Jan 2021

Boris can survive a cancelled Christmas

James Kirkup

21 Dec 2020

What Covid stole from Boris

James Kirkup

09 Dec 2020

Is Christmas dinner worth dying for?

James Kirkup

01 Dec 2020

Would Jeremy Hunt have done better?

James Kirkup

23 Oct 2020

Is it time to end the war on welfare?

James Kirkup

06 Oct 2020

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

James Kirkup

23 Sep 2020

Imagine a world without the USA…

James Kirkup

10 Sep 2020

A portrait of power, warts and all

James Kirkup

03 Sep 2020

What Dungeons and Dragons taught me about politics

James Kirkup

17 Aug 2020

We’re living in the shadow of the Coalition

James Kirkup

12 May 2020

Stop shaming tax avoiders

James Kirkup

04 May 2020

Why the English sacrificed liberty for lockdown

James Kirkup

23 Apr 2020

Why did Boris Johnson survive?

James Kirkup

15 Apr 2020

Will the pandemic kill off libertarianism?

James Kirkup

25 Mar 2020

How coronavirus exposes our fragility

James Kirkup

18 Mar 2020

Have we been played by China?

James Kirkup

04 Feb 2020

Where will Boris Johnson lead us?

James Kirkup

02 Jan 2020

The Tories should have listened to Jesse Norman

James Kirkup

30 Dec 2019

The ‘green crap’ lessons of 2013

James Kirkup

20 Dec 2019

No wonder politicians won’t talk about gender

James Kirkup

22 Nov 2019

What if everyone loses this election?

James Kirkup

20 Nov 2019

Why men should be banned

James Kirkup

11 Nov 2019

The war on social mobility

James Kirkup

03 Oct 2019

What if Corbyn ditched Nato?

James Kirkup

05 Sep 2019

How the Lib Dems could seize power

James Kirkup

08 Jul 2019

How the poor are kept in their place

James Kirkup

17 Jun 2019

Five policies to get Britain back on track

James Kirkup

08 May 2019

The future of inequality

James Kirkup

18 Apr 2019

Too posh to fail

James Kirkup

25 Mar 2019

What if Remain had won?

James Kirkup

11 Mar 2019

Why the BBC’s Brexit Day won’t work

James Kirkup

01 Mar 2019

Can our politics survive Brexit?

James Kirkup

12 Dec 2018

What’s killing the Conservatives?

James Kirkup

29 Sep 2018

Five ways Theresa May could have played things differently

James Kirkup

30 Apr 2018

Slaying dragons: Britain’s world-leading universities

James Kirkup

27 Apr 2018

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

James Kirkup

19 Mar 2018

Why business must break the curse of short-termism

James Kirkup

02 Feb 2018

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

James Kirkup

29 Sep 2017