Across the world, state capacity is the issue of the age. Politicians promising to make government leaner and more effective ...

John Curtice currently receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The outcome of last year’s general election left an important question hanging in the air. Could the UK’s ...

Two extraordinary things happened in Downham Market at the general election last year. One is that Liz Truss lost the seat of South West Norfolk, the first former prime minister to be ousted since ...

Matthew Brooker is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business and infrastructure. Formerly, he was an editor for Bloomberg News and the South China Morning Post. As decades of renewal go, this ...