Tag: service

£2m for service veterans – another spurious Sunak soundbite

IT’S NOT news that this government is desperate for a decent headline and keen to secure its support amongst what it thinks of as its tribe. So Mr Sunak has just announced £2.1million of support to veterans leaving the armed forces. Cue happy picture of him and Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer. Unfortunately and predictably, the logic […]

Why the power of the civil service must be curbed

WE ARE being led by fools, wrote Professor Matt Goodwin, the author of best seller Values, Voice and Virtue, an investigation into the growing chasm between an unaccountable and sanctimonious self-proclaimed elite and the working people of this country who pay their salaries. As Goodwin notes, one side sees the world as flat, borderless and culture-free, while the […]