James Bloodworth Articles

Inaction is intervention by another name —The most depressing thing since August’s vote in the House of Commons on military action in Syria has been the speed at which the topic appears to have dropped off the political agenda entirely. Publicity for the Stop the War...

The first mistake critics of both David Cameron and Boris Johnson make is to assume that neither men believe in anything. The second mistake they make is to assume that even if this were true it would matter. It is of course impossible to know exactly what either of...

University is the last place you would expect to encounter officially sanctioned bigotry. Indeed, for many young people the chance to go to uni is an opportunity to get away from the stultifying prejudice that characterises many of the small towns students leave...

It’s become almost de rigueur for members of the last Labour government to distance themselves from that government’s European immigration policies. The most recent attempt to do so has fallen to former home secretary Jack Straw, who claimed last week that in...