Tag: politics
-
Bad bad net
The Internet, which we thought was going to be liberating, turns out to be a tool of control: repressive, coercive and damaging to our most basic freedoms — So it…
-
Nationalise what?
Public ownership as end-of-life care. — This is a quick note in response to the head-spinning fact that, apparently, both ends of the British Parliamentary political spectrum are now positively…
-
Where is my patriotism?
Come, love of country, fill my heart… — I do love Britain. I guess I love England more. London most of all. I hope that in my life I’ve honoured…
-
How do you fund a monarchy?
There are only two ways: taxation or plunder — In modern monarchies it’s tricky. The sovereign can no longer send soldiers from town to town to extract funds and, since…
-
Some bullet-points about regulation
In case you’d got the wrong idea about how the ’regulatory state‘ is supposed to work — UPDATED 23 May 2025. I could update this thing daily. Regulation is always…
-
Look like you mean it
Riot season arrived on schedule. — Back in the old days… …lefties used to say things like “the forces of reaction – the capitalists and their proxies – divide us…
-
Dudes in the woods
Robin Hood is a Mediaeval superhero. He doesn’t care much about emancipation, but he loves to skip through the trees. — Gross is every year’s top-grossing movie, since 1913, reviewed.…
-
An endless round of perfectly-formed gotchas
Some people can’t tell the difference between advertising billboards and politics. — What is it that’s so contemptible about these stupid stunts? This shallow, patronising bollocks? For liberals, this kind…
-
And your enemies closer
’Close-marking’ is an electoral strategy, the invention of the now legendary Labour Party spokesman Alastair Campbell and strategist Peter Mandelson. — The idea is that an opposition party assembles focus…