Sunday, October 12, 2025

From Illiteracy to Idiocracy?

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Time was when it was books that people were deep into. Now it’s smartphones with universities now complaining that their students have diffi...
Friday, October 10, 2025

“This too shall pass……” - taking the long view

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The table below identifies some of the central issues which have rocked public debate in the West in each of the decades since the 1930s - s...
Monday, October 6, 2025

About the blog

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This blog has been running since I began to contemplate “hanging up my boots” after a career which had started in the late 1960s in “plannin...
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Return of the Strong Gods

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Two books have come to my notice – the first Return of the Strong Gods – nationalism, populism and the future of the west by R usty Reno (2...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

A History of Societal Collapse

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Previous posts have tried to do justice to the idea of collapse .  Luke Kemp, of Cambridge University, has just published a voluminous (almo...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

A Million Readers – and counting

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I’ve apparently just had my millionth click and registered my highest monthly audience 60,000 so far (with two weeks still to go). Many than...

IMMIGRATION as the number one issue in Europe and the US

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For 35 years, I’ve been a foreigner living in a country in which I wasn’t born. “Ex-pat” is the name we tend to call ourselves – but that is...