CSM EDITORIAL Rarely has a Prime Minister and her cabinet been so cornered. Partly this is due to weak leadership. Partly this is because of what in retrospect was a foolhardy decision to call a General Election in 2017 resulting in weaker leadership. Mostly because the EU is a power and money-grabbing mafia and want to make an example out of the UK, whatever it … Continue reading #ChuckChequers
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I wish You and Your families well. That You have a brilliant week ahead and find time to seek out some space conducive to peace and reflection. This week I would like to pray for our leaders. That they become circumspect and do what is best for us. That they look beyond short term gain and see well … Continue reading A Prayer for Our Leaders
BY JOHN ISMAEL What the hell is Theresa May playing at? Yesterday’s speech in Downing Street was good. Very good. It was clear and strong. It showed the EU up as the gangsters they are. May was Lancaster-House-good. She made clear that leaving the EU was all she was focused on and that she was not for turning – music to Brexiteers’ ears. So, why … Continue reading What is May’s Game?
BY JOHN ISMAEL Theresa May would do well to spend some time today in the sales office of a photocopier firm, or in the company of an insurance salesman. No doubt Anglian Windows or some other well-honed sales operation exists in this fine and (still) capitalist country where she could sit for a few hours and listen to the sales experience of hard-skinned salespeople. What … Continue reading Death of a Salesman
BY BEN PENSANT Three weeks ago Theresa May visited Newcastle. Yes, really. Not content with squatting in PM Jezza’s house for the past twelve months she also craps all over his proud history by delivering a sermon to the proles from the same venue that hosted one of his greatest triumphs. Indeed, the assorted resting actors, non-binary creatives and unemployed craft beer entrepreneurs who witnessed Jezza’s … Continue reading May Oop North
BY DAVID EYLES Back in the day, before the arrival of William of Normandy, the Anglo-Saxons had a pretty straightforward set of principles for the governance of England. It was the duty of the king (or queen) to protect and defend the people against foreign aggression. This allowed the rest of the country to get on with their lives and their farms and their businesses … Continue reading Theresa May’s Great Betrayal
BY SAM HOOPER Rather than attempting to forge a compelling, coherent vision for Britain rooted in conservative values, our dithering Prime Minister is soliciting a thousand disjointed policy suggestions from every vested interest and armchair crank in the nation. This is not leadership. Having been on the road since 14 March of this year, I confess that I presently find myself semi-detached from the day-to-day … Continue reading 1000 Ways To Die Trying
BY DAVID EYLES The current chaos and confusion exhibited by the government over the Brexit negotiations begs the question: What will be the electoral consequences of a ‘failed Brexit’ or a ‘weak Brexit’ or even ‘no Brexit’? To answer that question, this report analyses the 2015 and 2017 election results for every current Conservative MP and their constituencies. These are tied back to the 2016 … Continue reading Brexit – Or Else
BY JAMIE FOSTER Jeremy Corbyn is a pacifist. That is to say he opposes any military action taken by Britain or the United States under any circumstances. He is not a pacifist to the extent that it causes him to criticise Russia or Syria for their military action, but he does not want Britain or the US to take any military action at all. His … Continue reading Corbyn’s Impotent Britain
BY JAMIE FOSTER Jeremy Corbyn has spelled out Labour’s position on the EU stating that he wishes to have a customs union with the EU that will leave the UK a say in trade deals struck with other nations. At first blush this would appear a fantastical position. Having left the EU it is impossible that Britain could have either a vote or a veto … Continue reading Remoaner Corbyn
BY SAM HOOPER This government does not understand the meaning of ambition, beyond the leadership’s narrow, selfish desire to cling to power and prevent anyone else from having a go. But worse than being cynically without purpose, the government is also incompetent and lacking a functional political radar. Even a government of chancers and fakers, having been warned numerous times that their lack of a … Continue reading Stepping Stones 2022
CSM EDITORIAL Prior to the General Election – and when she bravely called it – we have fully backed Theresa May on the pages of this magazine. Ever since, we have not been kind to, or supportive of, our Prime Minister. Not since the Prime Minister imploded in the General Election campaign, threatening the country with the appalling Corbyn and making the UK seem a … Continue reading Well Done, Mrs May
BY SAM HOOPER Calls for the Tories to pursue and embrace the non-existent “radical centre” are a dangerous Siren song for conservatism at a time when the country needs conviction and clarity of purpose. We must know what a Tory government will have to achieve, before thinking about the way in which it must win office, because simply “winning a majority” on the wrong terms … Continue reading The Centre Must Not Hold
BY SAM WHITE Tory Britain, you have to love it. It’s kind of a feckless experiment, like grenades-and-rape Sweden, or Justin Trudeau’s identity-free-post-national Canada. Or is it more like France, where they’re fashionably laissez-faire about external borders, but are constructing bulletproof walls around the Eiffel Tower? Or Germany, where mass sex attacks in the street are covered up, but a journalist gets a suspended sentence … Continue reading Tory Britain, the Postmodern Version
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN In the opening lines of his paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, the British mathematical genius Alan Turing wrote, “I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’”. The Turing Test is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. In other words, if the answers from a machine are answers that … Continue reading The Turing Test
BY MANDY BALDWIN Al Murray’s alter-ego the Pub Landlord said “There is no British Dream…. because we’re awake.” On the other hand, Theresa May has vowed to bring back the British Dream – which she defines as the hope that each generation will improve their lot compared to the previous one. Maybe she believes in that particular manifestation of a British Dream because she is … Continue reading The British Dream
BY JAMIE FOSTER Theresa May’s conference speech raised an important question this year. Is Simon Brodkin funny? The prankster, also known as Lee Nelson, (the persona he adopts for television), offered her a P45 from Boris during the speech. It was, at best, a weak joke, reliant upon the embarrassment it caused for its humour. Brodkin has staged a number of such high-profile stunts. He … Continue reading Is Simon Brodkin Funny?
BY SAM WHITE Younger voters want change, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Pushing on and looking to the future is how we get men on the moon, and carry smartphones that can change our photos so we look like cats. And what’s wrong with shaking things up and pissing off stick-in-the-muds anyway? It’s one of the pleasures of Brexit. But in Britain, Corbynism has … Continue reading The Conservative Cataract
BY JAMIE FOSTER Theresa May’s speech in Florence set out her government’s approach to Brexit in some detail. The message appears to be that the can is to be kicked down the road. A transitional arrangement that will last for an undetermined amount of time, believed to be two years, will see the UK remain in the single market, continue to pay into the EU … Continue reading Florence Failure
BY JOHN ISMAEL Reason states that the Corbynites certainly do not merit a reaction. Momentum and Labour activists tend to have loud voices rather than being in control of large swathes of voters. McDonnell, Abbott and Nugee are hardly of a calibre worth giving any respect to. Without JC, no doubt there will be dissent in the Labour Party and the cock will not need … Continue reading The Antidote?
