What happens when the democratic process in the Western world fails to deliver elected administrations that can run the State and preserve the Nation on behalf of her people? In the past the solution to the problem of failing States was revolution of a gory
Dramatic things happen over centuries not decades. Since Britain consolidated into a "Nation" it has been run by something called the "State". From time to time the "State" under performs whether that is a Plantagenet king or a whole system like the Feudal System. When
The Labour Party conference was typical of a reunion of old left wing windbags. Living the dream of "smashing the hated Tories" decades after the Tories stopped being a threat to anyone but themselves. Corbyn really believes he has set the country on fire with
There was a time when to use a Marxist phrase politics was a petit-bourgeois activity. The players were like bankers and lawyers mere flunkies of the capitalist. At that time the political system was set up to efficiently manage the capitalist economy and ensure the
The Autumn of discontent is a worthy enterprise for well intentioned students who having a youthful belief in the benign intentions of the State want to "take the fight to the politicians" in the hope that politicians are part of the solution. In reality of course
Well it's not feudalism? What do you call it when the ordinary tax-payer subsidizes labour? well it isn't socialism? So what is it called when the ordinary taxpayer subsidizes capital? Well its not capitalism and it is probably the biggest rip off in world history.
Look around the world and you see nations engaging in a kind of verbal warfare. Better of course than actual warfare but pointless and limiting. The problem is or so it seems to us, too many countries fail to understand their shared value base. They,
No of course not. In 21st Century Britain there should be no issue with this. Baroness Warsi would make a great foster mum. She is bright ambitious, well connected and we assume able to square the rights of post industrial westerners with her own possible
All societies need to possess two basic characteristics, the ability to create economic value as well as social coherence. In a nut shell the ability to feed and water themselves and the ability to live within their means and maintain social order. The creation of
More terrorism this week and threats of more transport-related atrocities in the UK. Every politician and pundit have identified the problem of the West's lack of a narrative to counter-terrorism. The confusion over progressive values is that progressive values involve tolerating too readily regressive values