Posts tagged with: civilisation

Trump, Braverman and Stochastic Terrorism

Normal terrorism is defined as follows: Stochastic terrorism is more subtle: As Wikipedia goes on to say, “Unlike incitement to terrorism, this is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded […]

How to Analyse the Budget

The Chancellor is due to announce his Autumn Statement on November 22. Truss will apparently also announce her own so-called ‘Budget for Growth’. This is an open letter to the […]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Silver Blaze is one of Conan-Doyle’s best-loved stories: Sherlock Holmes has to solve a killing and find a missing race-horse – and of course he does both. At one point […]

A Tale of Two Conferences

  Last week was the Conservative Party Conference, CPC23. Or perhaps there were two different conferences: The official conference, run by Sunak’s team, whose objective was to rally the party […]

Malice through the Looking Glass

After 13 years of increasingly far-right rule, the rot eating away at the fabric of our country is clear to almost everyone: we have a weak economy and an unprecedented […]

Tackling the National Emergency

In a moment of candour, while he was campaigning to become Leader of the Conservative Party, Sunak admitted that the state of the UK today constitutes a national emergency. He […]

Set UK policy to build an Optimal State

Jeremy Heywood was Cabinet Secretary – the UK’s most senior Civil Servant – from 2012 to 2018. He was extremely open to new ideas, and alternative perspectives. The Heywood Prize […]

The Dirty Dozen

After 13 years in power, this extremist version of the Conservative party has a clear track record – and on virtually every dimension it is poor. As a result, they […]

Drilling while the world burns

  In a week when climate records have again been broken, fires rage across much of the world, and the UN Secretary General spoke of “children swept away by monsoon […]

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