Step aside from traditional pro/anti monarchy arguments for a moment. There’s a more interesting space to dig into. Public expressions of loss and insecurity are entirely rational. We have much to feel insecure...
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Alan SimpsonAlice in Blunderland
The politics of complete confusion As the Tory leadership race tediously draws to a close, even Conservative Party members are hoping that any knock on the door comes from Jehovah’s Witnesses rather than Truss or Sunak...
Those whom the Gods would destroy…
Easter Island may now be a World Heritage site, but its once complex and integrated society finally collapsed in an orgy of civil war and cannibalism. In today’s Britain, this is replayed in the Conservative Party...
Unfit to Govern
Britain swelters in an unprecedented heatwave. Tens of thousands of people across Europe flee from fires that defy public control. The Climate Change Committee reports that Britain is falling behind in its existing...
A Man For All Seasons- the anatomy of a train crash
Despite two crushing by-election defeats, and the resignation of his Party Chairman, Boris Johnson remains undaunted. Strutting the streets of the Rwanda South constituency, Johnson insists that support for him is still...
Ozymandias Johnson
‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Resist the temptation to wallow in the civil war Conservative MPs are embroiled in or the resignation of yet another of Boris Johnson’s Ethics Advisors. Johnson lurches...
‘Rejoice’ Revisited – Dystopian Democracy
Just over 40 years ago, on 26th April 1982, Margaret Thatcher weaponised the word ‘Rejoice’. It became a term that would forever divide the nation; the assassin’s kiss Thatcherite zealots would use, as much against...
Let them eat … what? – Britain’s implosion of political leadership
The 1.5 million households in Britain facing destitution and the 10 million simply in poverty will have wept at the emptiness of the government’s Queen’s Speech programme. There’s to be no emergency Budget to pay the...
The Economics of Sleaze
If Conservative MPs can spare a moment from watching porn in the House of Commons chamber they will find lots more ‘hot stuff’ calling for their attention in the world outside. A vast swathe of South East Asia faces the...
Meltdown – Confronting the delusions of our time
In these scary times it is hard to think much beyond the tragedy that is Ukraine. Bombed hospitals sit badly in anyone’s books. Flood tides of refugees shame us all. But if any good is to be salvaged it must come from a...
