Columnists / Comment / Daniel Hawker
by Mallard Columnist · Published November 24, 2022 · Last modified November 23, 2022
Standing outside of Downing Street in 2010, David Cameron declared his intention to lead a government “that is built on some clear values”. Within that first speech, he spoke of providing strong and stable...
Columnists / Nathan Wilson / Think Tank
by Mallard Columnist · Published November 23, 2022 · Last modified November 22, 2022
As a follow up to my first mini talk about Chinese Demographics and why this will result in China not becoming a major superpower, I thought I would write about a different key factor...
Since its inception, academic historians have produced countless books analysing every detail of the Cold War (CW). For most historians, the CW remains arguably the most important event that never happened, however Westad (2012)...
Columnists / Culture / Sarah Stook
by Sarah Stook · Published November 17, 2022 · Last modified November 13, 2022
We’ve had many monarchs in English and British history. Nearly all of them have been married, some more than once. Here’s part one of my series on consorts: Matilda of Flanders ● ...
Columnists / Jake Scott / Think Tank
by Jake Scott · Published October 31, 2022 · Last modified October 30, 2022
There are certain darlings of the New Left: Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Judith Butler; Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; Slavoj Zizek. These thinkers have, in ways that are becoming only more apparent, shaped the...
Columnists / Comment / Sarah Stook
by Sarah Stook · Published October 29, 2022 · Last modified October 31, 2022
On the 8th November, our rebellious former colony, the United States, will be heading to the polls for their midterms. Americans will vote for Governors, Senators and Representatives in an election that will be...
Back in early July, following consecutively dire electoral forecasts, Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister and Conservative leader. With his departure, most Conservatives expected that their party could be saved from gradual decline –...
Columnists / Comment / Ilija Dokmanovic
by Mallard Columnist · Published October 18, 2022 · Last modified October 15, 2022
It has been a month since Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has passed away. Having lived to the age of 96, Queen Elizabeth has been the longest reigning British monarch in history, with just...
There tends to be a lot of historical movies and TV shows about the same events. There are so many about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, certain WW2 battles, the Vietnam War, Winston Churchill...
Columnists / Nathan Wilson / Think Tank
by Mallard Columnist · Published October 10, 2022 · Last modified October 7, 2022
This is the second of two essays by The Mallard’s Nathan Wilson on the collapse of complex systems. Part one can be read here. The UK | Managerial The UK is very interesting because...
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