Author: James Graham

  • I think I was working at my old university’s student union or something (University of Manchester), except it was in Scotland. We were hosting a dinner with JD Vance and students and had promoted it, but not done anything to prepare for it. My brain kept mixing up Vance with (I think) Dan Snow, who…

    The JD Vance dinner
  • Too many liberals have a tendency to confuse their priorities between legalism and justice, as the latest internal Lib Dem row about transgender representation illusatrates

    “Trans quotas” and why people hate liberals
  • Zack Polanski has hit the ground running as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales. But are his policies to tax the rich widening the debate on inequality, or a mirage that will lead to greater disenchantment?

    The Polanski Dilemma
  • Neoliberalism was nothing less than the refutation of liberalism. After its death we should return ourselves to the thinking it sought to replace.

    In defence of liberalism part three: neoliberalism
  • I went to see two films. The first one was black and white and entirely set in the confines of a New Orleans barber shop. It was about a black kid who was struggling to make ends meet and afford a saxophone. The second was a full colour film about a white couple who got…