Losers’ Consensus is Missing

BY ALEX STORY For a democracy to work, the losing side must accept defeat. For the next electoral cycle, the opposition should work to convince the electorate that its ideas, concepts and philosophies are better for the country. The next election tests the opposition’s views. If the programme overlaps with the opinions of the largest number of voters in the country, the opposition becomes the … Continue reading Losers’ Consensus is Missing

Kate Bingham Reveals Whitehall as a Wasteland Run by Droids & Jobsworths

THE CITY GRUMP The incredibly successful driving force behind the vaccine rollout, Kate Bingham, in an interview with the Telegraph this week, has given us a frightening reveal into the horror that is Whitehall. I suppose I should be pleased, having written the City Grump, “Whitehall: The self-preserving, incompetent master of us all” but I actually feel quite sick as it means there is little hope … Continue reading Kate Bingham Reveals Whitehall as a Wasteland Run by Droids & Jobsworths

The Long March Away from the Institutions

BY PATRICK FAGAN Deep in the darkness of the Amazon rainforest, there is a monster known as the zombie-ant fungus. It is a parasite that infects carpenter ants and controls their behaviour for its own ends: under the fungus’ mind control, the ant leaves the safety of its nest, finds a high, humid spot on the underside of a leaf, and attaches itself there while … Continue reading The Long March Away from the Institutions