BY JOHN DREWRY The vampire, the werewolf and the witch were the primary facilitators of an annual December conference of monsters, devils and demons. The aim of their organisation had always been very clear – to inflict fear, pain and death upon humankind. But they faced an eternal conundrum – did they really exist? Each year they addressed this perennial problem. “Through many ages they … Continue reading Grandfather Christmas
BY JOE NUTT It’s difficult to avoid the sensation as a commonplace citizen, that more and more equally commonplace citizens have become openly prepared to defy the law. Flags have nothing to do with this. Unless of course they’re ornamenting terrorism. Lawlessness began quietly booming some years ago. In world famous galleries, paint is thrown at great paintings, statues are defaced or toppled and at … Continue reading English and the Law
BY PAUL T HORGAN In retrospect, the American bombing of Uranium enrichment plants in darkest Iran was obvious. There was a central fact that was deliberately ignored or played down by commentators for years. No one in the mainstream media, or indeed in the political bubbles, has actually explored what “enrichment” actually is. Unless a person was familiar with how an atomic bomb works, the … Continue reading Atomic Brinkmanship
BY PAUL T HORGAN Could use of the Tallboy have precipitated the end of World War II? Adolf Hitler moved in a mysterious way, but there was a good reason for the mystery. Of all the countries fighting in World War II, only Germany lacked capability for an orderly change of leadership to alter policy. Instead Germany was run by a form of personal rule. … Continue reading If
BY NIALL McCRAE To paraphrase a saying from the Second World War, when some citizens seemed blissfully ignorant: ‘there’s a revolution on, you know!’ Throughout my lifetime there has been no major war, but by stealth there has been a radical overturning of conventional society and its institutions and norms. This has now reached a Woke crescendo, and in Orwellian style everything good is bad, … Continue reading Scholars of Britain’s Cultural Revolution
BY ALEX STORY Old Europe and the Americas are set on very different paths. Germany, France and the United Kingdom are visibly stuck. El Salvador, Argentina and the United States, on the other hand, are not. Politically, Germany and France have become difficult places to govern, to say the least. The fragile German three-party coalition government collapsed in November 2024 over the beleaguered country’s economic … Continue reading The Great Bifurcation
BY DAVID EYLES Politics is driven by ideas, culture and events. Ideas and culture may sometimes clash to produce unintended consequences. These consequences, and events from outside the system, will dictate the outcome. The economist and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb used the term ‘black swan event’ to describe those events which occur rarely, and which are not only unexpected but unpredictable by virtue of being … Continue reading Starmer and the Nazgul of Events
BY PAUL T HORGAN That the NHS at the time of writing has a waiting list for treatment of over 7 million patients is not a symptom of a failing organisation. It is actually an indicator that the organisation has failed. Any moves to address this public disaster without major change in how British people access health care are not so much as fruitless as … Continue reading A Matter of Life and Death
