Professor Matthew Flinders
Total 14 Posts
Time to ditch Dominic Cummings’ technocratic, mechanical vision of government.
5 min read
Politics cannot be separated from emotion, as the past few months have clearly shown.
Coronavirus confusion: The prime minister cannot keep riding two horses at once.
6 min read
Financial support is the way to protect health and the economy. Right now, Boris Johnson is achieving neither.
As Trump caught Coronavirus, what catching COVID-19 meant for Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro.
6 min read
How did the British prime minister and Brazilian president’s brush with COVID-19 affect them politically?
Boris Johnson needs to be loved too much to tell the truth about Christmas 2020.
5 min read
A pathological need to please is preventing the prime minister from breaking bad news.
Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson have lost control of the fear factor.
5 min read
Fear is actually an important element of a government’s toolbox but once you lose control of it, you can’t get it back with ease.
Coronavirus blame games – Who really benefits?
5 min read
Politicians have a tendency to dodge accountability after crises, but our ‘gotcha’ culture makes that inevitable. We can all do better this time.
How Boris Johnson’s Conservatives swept to election victory in Labour heartlands.
4 min read
The general election 2019 has delivered a seismic shift in the balance of British politics.