Last week, I used my blog to set out the reasons why I believed that the UK should remain in the European Union. As the last Prime Minister who took us into a referendum is reputed to have said, “a week is a long time in politics”, and one week on, the landscape looks very…
This is a momentous week. The EU referendum is more important than a General Election: where General Elections come around every five years, this is a once-in-a-generation vote, about the sort of country we are going to be. In earlier blog posts, and in interviews, I’ve made my personal position clear – I will be…
The iPhone. The 2007 economic crash. Leicester City winning the Premiership. Did you see them coming? Predicting the future is always likely to catch you out. As someone once said, nothing dates faster than the future. So it’s a bit bold to suggest that we should base our new strategy on our aims for the…
They are selling replica Leicester City shirts on market stalls in Beijing. They weren’t selling them a year ago. That’s what topping the Premier League does. It’s almost certain that Leicester’s two universities will now see a spike in international, and probably UK, applications: everyone loves a winner. The Guardian published its 2017 University Guide…