Democracy
Keeping It in The Families
Your humble author and Imelda Marcos have been in the same place at the same time only once. Thirty years ago the trade winds had tempted a much younger me to a dusty road beside [more…]
Democracy
19th Century
Not Just a Walk in the Park
It has been a challenging couple of years for us all, and I suspect that our trials and tribulations are a long way from over. Thus, as the autumn temperatures drop away to winter’s chills, [more…]
Authoritarianism
Zombie Nation
Britain is no longer great, it has not been for my entire life. I was born just days after the dawn of the Blair horror years in 1997, a year that marked the official end [more…]
Philosophy
Freedom Lost?
I left UKIP in spirit over two years ago. Formally I left in January 2018. I had joined in 2015 specifically to help with the fight to save our democracy and our freedoms and to [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell – Part 2
Published by Quill, an imprint of William Morrow & Co. 1988 paperback edition (first published 1987) ISBN 0-688-07951-2 In the previous part of this review and discussion, we looked at Part I of Thomas Sowell’s [more…]
Arts
Placard-waving and Marching to Exit
The undoing of Brexit has been incremental so that it has been difficult to pin down any one point at which to say “Stop!” We may be reaching the end of this Brexit saga to [more…]
Conservatives
Democracy 101
I’ve been thinking. The Referendum result was a one-off, a gaggle of disparate groups that came together as a citizen army to win what the Remainers thought was an unwinnable fight. And we won! The [more…]
Arts