ANOTHER depressing article on the state of our youth: Britain has a boy problem, according to the Telegraph, as male educational attainment lags well behind female. And not just a boy problem, either. The same article states that since covid, men have been working fewer hours and have been dropping out of the workforce, whereas women […]
‘I don’t do portfolio politics. I don’t take the line that because I think something about issue X I’ve got to think something about some unrelated issue Y. I try to look at each problem on its merits.’ Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption, UnHerd podcast, February 2024 IT’S NOT common for us commoners to hear […]
TWO is a coincidence, three is a trend. First Brexit, then the Indigenous Voice referendum in Australia, now the defenestration of Leo Varadkar in Ireland: his attempt to change the Irish constitution on woke lines crashed and burned in a defeat so humiliating it seems to have led to his shock resignation last week. Apparently, […]
GB NEWS is upsetting Britain’s delicate ‘broadcast ecology’ and should be shut down, Sky’s Adam Boulton whined just over six months ago. An unfortunate phrase to use in the circumstances, given that the process most associated with ecosystems is Charles Darwin’s survival of the fittest through natural selection. No doubt, to extend the biological metaphor, […]
THOUGH politicians and the political twitterati obsess about the date, timing and outcome of the general election, most ordinary citizens remain comatose at the prospect; barely 65 per cent of them are likely to vote for their respective red or blue donkey. This is understandable, given that in many respects the outcome is almost certainly […]
DURING the Blair years, the journalist Richard Littlejohn brilliantly riffed on the Del Amitri song Nothing Ever Happens to describe the political era of weightless vapidity we then appeared to be living in. (Of course, behind all the spin and deflection, the revolt of the elites first identified by Christopher Lasch was gathering pace, but it wasn’t widely […]
HAVE you ever met someone who wanted another layer of government or extra politicians funded through taxation? This is the easiest question you have ever been asked, for we all know the answer. So, how did we end up with Metro Mayors in our big cities? I am standing for Mayor of Greater Manchester, but not […]
IN THIS series we have concentrated so far on the dolorous outcomes that our atrophied and dysfunctional system of ‘Unrepresentative Shamocracy’ have meant for the United Kingdom and its people. To a degree, we have sought to explain the cause of the decline in British democracy as the consequence of long-term societal or cultural shifts, […]
ALL over the West we hear talk of the ‘threat to democracy’ of that progressive bogeyman, the ‘far right’. What this really means is that there is a threat to rule of the managerial elite whose progressive values control our decision-making bodies. The EU has always been a haven for the bureaucratic and managerially inclined. […]
THE British state is failing. The scandal of wrongly convicted postmasters has yet again shown us that we are ruled by a callous, unresponsive state that ignores or, worse still, demonises those lives or views that are deemed unfashionable. Outrage follows outrage at such frequency that we are in danger of becoming desensitised to it […]
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