Like Trump in the US, Emmanuel Macron sees himself as a visionary, like us starting his own party within the last twelve months. Like Trump, he sees himself as a saviour of the people. Trump boasted that he was going to give power back to the
Sir. Whilst remaining a home seems a sensible thing for 1 million ‘boomerang millennials to do’ given the peculiarities of the modern labour and housing markets we are surprised that there is not more concern about it from the financial services sector. The reason for
Where is the organised and militant if not to say revolutionary industrial working class when you need it? The Labour Party sure as hell would like to find it. However, they are largely responsible for turning the second and third generation of unemployed industrial and
Let us start with the Conservative Party. Probably the only credible party of government in England and Wales. Whilst the Scots Nats are in Government in Scotland they can hardly be described as credible given their obsession with independence and lack of any grown up
Sir. The notion that the British left is in any way “progressive” needs to be challenged. They have highjacked the word for too long. Nicola Sturgeon and others are a little like Canut trying to hold back the tide of actual progressive change by defining
Letter to The Spectator Week commencing 10 April 2017 Sir. Ian Acheson's piece was illuminating, highlighting as it did systemic and managerial failings in the running of British Jails. What baffles us, however, is the notion that there is no effective counter narrative with which to address
Written week commencing 10 March 2017 Street lighting is far more complex an issue than Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) has to date considered it to be. A bit like library closure perhaps. Whilst some rural areas and town centres may either benefit from lights out, allowing
If you are a working person in the public sector at a tactical or operational level or you work in the private sector or you are self-employed you will be the sort of person we are looking for to become members of, and involved with,
Blue Revolution Archive Page 1 14.02.17 Riots in British Jails and a crisis in criminal justice. The cause might be the madness of the Blair years and the focus on "self-esteem" and judicial process. To solve the crisis in prisons we need a root and branch reform of
Blue Revolution Archive Page 2 12.12.16 A crisis in UK social care and Kids being identified as "failing" at three. Are these issues linked? We generally discuss the policies promoted within the western world in economic terms. But of course, there are very serious social consequences to these