Stewart WoodERNST LUBITSCH’S “KOHLHIESEL’S DAUGHTERS" & THE SHATTERING OF GERMANYThere is a German silent movie called "Kohlhiesel's Daughters", made in 1920 at the start of the Weimar Republic.Jan 12, 2021Jan 12, 2021
Stewart WoodA LETTER TO OUR GERMAN FRIENDSThis joint letter to Germany, published in Die Welt today on its front page, is a response to the letter in The Times from senior German…Feb 1, 2019Feb 1, 2019
Stewart WoodTIME FOR BREXIT TO FACE THE MUSICTHE UK MUSIC INDUSTRY IS BRACING FOR BREXIT: IT’S TIME FOR SOME CLARITY FROM OUR GOVERNMENTFeb 14, 2018Feb 14, 2018
Stewart WoodWHY THERESA MAY’S DEAL WITH THE DUP MUST BE ABANDONEDWhen Gordon Brown was Prime Minister from 2007–2010, I was privileged to be his Northern Ireland adviser. On the whole it was a relatively…Jun 12, 2017Jun 12, 2017
Stewart WoodHow can Labour be socially democratic without the City?Since the financial crash of 2008, centre-left parties across the developed world have been wrestling with the question: how do we do…Mar 20, 2017Mar 20, 2017
Stewart WoodTHERESA MAY’S MISTAKEN PRECEDENT FOR A BREXIT BASED ON CHERRY-PICKINGAs the start of Brexit negotiations with the EU-27 looms, the trickiest conundrum facing Theresa May is that of reconciling the need to…Feb 25, 20173Feb 25, 20173
Stewart WoodTRUMP’S ‘MUSLIM BAN’: IS IT COMPATIBLE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW?When President Trump issued his Executive Orders suspending the US Refugee Admission Program for 120 days, and banning entry to all…Feb 21, 2017Feb 21, 2017
Stewart WoodNOW IS THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME TO PLAY GAMES WITH THE BBC’S INDEPENDENCEAgainst the odds, the BBC continues to occupy a unique and extraordinary place in Britain. Despite the breath-taking pace of technological…Feb 8, 2017Feb 8, 2017
Stewart WoodHOW THE MANTRA OF CENTRISM GAVE POPULISM ITS BIG BREAKFor just under a quarter of a century, British politics has been dominated by what might be called, paradoxically, a “theology of centrism”…Jan 18, 2017Jan 18, 2017
Stewart Wood15 THINGS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP REVEALED BY HIS “TIMES/BILD” INTERVIEWAll quotes are from Donald Trump’s interview with Michael Gove (The Times) and Kai Diekmann (Bild) that appeared in The Times today (16…Jan 16, 2017Jan 16, 2017