Monday, October 31, 2022

This Too will Pass – patterns of decline

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The beauty of doing a series of posts is that it gives you a chance to consider them with a critical eye – with what we might call “ periphe...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

How can Britain survive? part VI of a series

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  The UK has experienced 2 major shocks in the last 6 years – Brexit and Covid – on top of 40 years of relentless neoliberalism . The series...
Friday, October 28, 2022

The revolutionary english - part v of a series

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A few years back, I had occasion to comment that t he Brits have a reputation for respecting tradition which is totally undeserved . Their g...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

The Strange Death of Liberal England – part IV

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The Strange Death of Liberal England was a famous book which came out in 1935 arguing that the Liberal party had been destroyed by its stru...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

The collapse of government in the UK

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This latest series of posts is trying to understand how british governments have in recent decades been brought so low as to have become the...
Monday, October 24, 2022

The UK Puzzle

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The last post didn’t do justice to the seriousness of the question it raised. It was a rather self-indulgent whinge at the rage most of us B...
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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Why has the UK fallen so far – so fast?

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They say that understanding is 90% of problem-solving or – as Einstein once put it - “ if I was given an hour to solve a problem, I would ...
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Thursday, October 20, 2022

The UK self-destructs

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Truss has gone - the 4th UK Prime Minister to fall on the sword since 2016. The UK is destroying itself under this latest government.  The s...