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The Slow Death of Democracy in the UK
Events may overtake this piece, but I felt compelled to write after a rather tumultuous week of politics and I think most of what I have to say will still hold true. Since the EU [more…]
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Arts
On Being Doxxed
Fellow Postaliers, imagine that you fire up your computer in the morning, open the Daily Express website to check the headlines and find yourself looking at your own swooningly handsome visage, in a row of [more…]
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From Draft to Bookshop – A Journey
Almost two years ago this weekend my wife and I, rather nervously, drove into a small Devon village on our way to visit a family that I had only met through Going Postal but who [more…]
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Globalism v. Nationalism IV
Wow, friends. What a few weeks it has been since the last piece I wrote. The battle between nationalism and globalism continues, as does the collapse of traditional left versus right politics. Evidence of this [more…]
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Big Government
I can’t be the only one who has noticed how the solution for any given problem is more government. Spiraling knife crime? The government must ban knives. Plastic waste in the sea? The government [more…]
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Globalism v. Nationalism: The Third Part
Here we go again. The power struggle between Nationalists and Globalists continues. I did so dearly hope to be writing from a post-EU Britain, but here we are. A brief reminder that I previously wrote [more…]
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Globalism v. Nationalism Revisited
A while ago I wrote a piece on Globalism v. Nationalism. In essence I argued that the old Left v. Right politics was breaking down, and that instead politics was realigning on Globalist v. Nationalist [more…]
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Remainers Didn’t Know What They Were Voting For
How often do we hear the tired refrain that leave voters didn’t know what they were voting for? Certain options were not on the ballot paper, usually followed by an insult to our intelligence. But [more…]
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Where have all the Post Offices gone?
According to Touchstone in ‘As You Like It’, the seventh form of lie is “…the lie direct” (Act V, Scene IV): our Politicians do not often use this form – for instance, the late and [more…]