Fred Skulthorp
Fred Skulthorp is an occasional writer. He tweets at @skulthorp
The BBC has a “poor people” problem
The broadcaster is obsessed with trying to reach an audience it doesn’t understand
Against the consultancy blob
Why are we still listening to the behavioural insights team?
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism