InPolitics Social Comment

Defund the Police — Yet Again

No matter which way you look at it, police popularity seems to be at something of a low ebb with even the usually excoriated politicians enjoying something of a bump in the polls when compared to the men and women in blue.

15 April 2023

InPolitics Response

Response — We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives

Those of us who believe in the merits of conservatism, the road ahead is one on which it is more important than ever to start calling ourselves conservatives.

25 October 2022

InHistory Politics

The Sources of Soviet Conduct

Today's Russia is pursuing the same aims as in 1946: autarchy for Russia and Russian-dominated adjacent areas by a leader, under pressure from nationalistic backers, who has miscalculated the situation.

24 September 2022

InPolitics Social Comment

5 reasons I will be celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

It becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

1 June 2022

InLeadership Politics

Teflon Leadership

Those who rise to the top jobs, do so not because they are better leaders or have fewer blots on their copybook — it is because they are better able to shrug off criticism and weather the blistering attacks that are directed at all holders of public office.

23 January 2022

InPolitics

Power and Control: Tech Billionaires in Politics

Don't worry about the populist, worry about what comes after them. And what is coming seems clear: Billionaires of the 2.0 revolution.

7 November 2021

InPolitics Social Comment

Jotting – Protect Duty

While I am not keen on the idea of self-policing, lest we go the way of some American states, I do wonder if society may not be better able to protect its citizens if its citizens were more involved in that self-same protection. Be it physical, intellectual or cyber.

18 May 2021

InPolitics Social Comment

Hail, Lobster!

The moment when left leaning popular culture overreached itself and instead of fascist shaming a once obscure academic into silence, brought back into popular use what had long been taboo and empowered the very thing they thought they were destroying.

16 April 2021

InPolitics Technology

Bitcoin’s Dirty Little Secrets – Political

In praxis, the result for Bitcoin is that the ideological claims for a decentralised, government free, anonymous currency has given way to the ‘worse-is-better’ ideology of why most people seem to be dumping cash into crypto: to get rich and live the capitalist high life.

13 April 2021

InPolitics

Doomsday Clock

The concept of a clock was chosen because it implies that unless we stop the seconds from ticking down, the hands will inevitably reach midnight.

9 July 2020

InHistory Politics

Modern Pocket Boroughs

Yet for all the antics, there was a certain honesty about such naked corruption. Votes were sold and it was clear who was buying them.

7 June 2020

InPolitics

Letters of Note

Today I pay homage to one brilliantly penned piece by WSC, from an age when they both inked and blotted.

2 June 2020

InPolitics

Parliamentary Privilege

Sidestepping Trump's wounded pose and Twitter's egregious claim of the moral high ground and an interesting question about politics and speech emerges.

30 May 2020

InPolitics Social Comment

Proportionality in Pursuit of Justice

Specifically put, proportionality isn't a one way street in which the power of the state is neutered to the benefit of an individual.

30 May 2020

InBusiness Politics Privacy Technology

Distributism

To replace a People's Republic network with a Democratic Club network isn't necessarily an improvement because it only prefences one centralised solution over another.

29 May 2020

InPolitics

Grey Eminence

Sadly, for our attempts to hold power to account, the 'what' is lost to the political 'how,' with which side wins becoming the benchmark for 'account.'

27 May 2020

InHistory Politics

A Marvellous Idea for a Blog

I didn't have the time to write you a short blog about historical analogies, so I wrote about something else.

21 May 2020

InHistory Politics

Dead Certainties

The key is to avoid reading events falsely, which inevitably leads to politics shaping what we think is true.

20 May 2020

InLeadership Politics Science

Climate Change, Political Stagnation

The satirical ‘Yes Prime Minister’ quipped about international organizations: Hacker: But surely we’re all committed to the European ideal?Sir Humphrey:…

20 December 2009