I was committed to write a paper for the recent Progressive Governance Summit that brought together leaders like Justin Trudeau, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Olaf Scholz, Margrethe Vestager and several thousand activists, thinkers, mayors, councillors and parliamentarians. The topic was how the 2020s could be a progressive decade. I set out some of the tasks; the broader challenge of imagination (on which I am now finishing a book, building on my work last year with Untitled an

The most powerful clique in the UK at the moment are linked to the Spectator magazine. They congregate around it and the Telegraph, living in a dense web of networks, friendships, dinner parties, affairs and marriages. Boris Johnson is their most prominent member but most of the Tory leadership of the last decade - Cameron, Osborne, Gove - were part of this group (Theresa May was an exception). So too was Dominic Cummings, whose wife worked for the magazine. Reading the Spec