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...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Political Scientists Don't Understand the Public

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One of my favourite writers is economist Branko Milanovic who has an interesting post about a conference he attended recently on the theme o...
Friday, September 5, 2025

What’s Wrong with Britain?

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In the early 1960s, Penguin had a series of books under the general title “ What’s wrong with Britain ” which focused on its institutional f...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Why Don’t We Revolt More Often?

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I posted on this a couple of months ago but let me return to the question – with a rather fuller set of suggested reading.  It is, of course...