parliament
The Ambassador: Markus Leitner
The Swiss Ambassador on how regular referenda and a devolved government embeds Switzerland’s politics with accountability and rooted decisionmaking
How to programme the future
Modern technologies could make the world a better place – or they could do the exact opposite
The Corridor
Our Westminster spy on the freeloading footie fan, Labour’s hard-left harrumphing and Johnson’s swinger consigliere
Future fuel
Jacob Young MP tells Mace why he’s backing clean hydrogen as the fuel of the future
Diary: Government as Performance Art
Anand Menon is back in Portcullis House – but ‘politics as normal’ is distinctly absent
The mutant variant of parliament has poisoned Westminster
Worse still, much of the new intake of MPs have not been able to discover the art of cooperation.
The Clown Prince Ascends to his Throne
There’s plenty of egg-on-face – or just embarrassed silence – for the many pundit hacks, often former Tory colleagues of Boris, who wrote him off as a priapic clown.
Breaking the code
The government seems to believe pragmatism and practice should outweigh the law or international treaties