This week saw the birth of an exciting new political movement: ‘The Independent Group’, so named in order to use a legal loophole whereby a group of MPs do not have to disclose the information about their financial backers. Not to cast aspersion on their noble intentions, but their sources of income are probably dodgier… Continue reading “The Blair Rich Project”: does the establishment now believe its own propaganda?
The new Opium of the Masses?
In the age of instant communication, has the smartphone replaced god as our drug of choice?
The Implications of Instantaneity
I explore the implications of the rise of the Information Society for human nature
“When Britain was Great”: The Danger of Nostalgia and Nationalism
The danger nationalism and nostalgia poses to British society and politics
The Tortoise and the Hare
In the wake of the Conservative Minority Government’s Queen Speech, I explore the reversal of fortunes between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn
