The column of Angus Gillan, political researcher and consultant. Angus worked on Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign and has been a conservative council candidate.
After well over an hour frantically transcribing the words of Andrew Roberts, the distinguished and internationally published historian, I looked up for him to say: “It is rare in history for every mistake to...
Angus Gillan / Columnists / Think Tank
by Guest Contributor · Published March 11, 2021 · Last modified March 9, 2021
Articulating how Britain can support an international rules-based order when approaching a future relationship with China, considering vast human rights violations, for this Lord, it comes down to nothing more than economics, and detractors...
Rearranging furniture, I moved several pairs of shoes from where they have been stored. Dust lightly coated the shoelaces. Only a year ago those shoes were worn about the town or in an office,...
Angus Gillan / Columnists / Comment / Think Tank
by Guest Contributor · Published February 19, 2021 · Last modified February 18, 2021
Festival UK 2022 rightly aims to cultivate civic pride and kick start economic recovery. Unfortunately, the endeavour reveals big-government tendencies that will not benefit taxpayers and ordinary businesses. A revitalised, ‘new Jerusalem’ of a...
by Guest Contributor · Published February 6, 2021 · Last modified February 5, 2021
If the aim in publishing this article was to look cheeky and edgy, it fails. A celebration of flagrant disregard displays either ignorance or indifference to ordinary people sacrificing everything.
by Guest Contributor · Published January 15, 2021 · Last modified February 6, 2021
By reinvesting in human, educational, alliances at a time of growing global tension, Britain can develop human relations while solidifying the liberal world order, through conservation and deepening of current ties.
by Guest Contributor · Published November 13, 2020 · Last modified February 6, 2021
“A government of laws, not of men” is how John Adams described the ideal form of government. The Constitution of the United States, in all its brevity, was designed to create such a government....
by Guest Contributor · Published November 4, 2020 · Last modified February 6, 2021
In 1869 the American social reformer and writer Frederick Douglass delivered the ‘Composite Nation’, a speech in which he advocated for the acceptance of Chinese immigrants. Douglass stated a belief that all people, regardless...
On a day of protests against the US President Donald Trump’s State Visit to the United Kingdom a strange sight appeared in Westminster Square and in the papers. What greeted us in the streets,...
Forget the superficial, we care about the tangible: Governance and the New South Wales Liberals. The result of the 18th May 2019 Australian federal election hangs in the balance, yet one thing is certain....
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