Right turn ahead for Reeves and Starmer This is Reeves’s fundamental problem: our system of social democracy is coming apart as it becomes increasingly unaffordable. The situation is grave. The post-war settlement is breaking down on all fronts—at home and abroad. It is a great unravelling. To placate the furious Labour left, Reeves will likely resort to yet more damaging tax rises while cutting welfare and increasing defence spending. The centre-right must respond with clarity and discipline. Any other strategy is a mistake: • Welcome every spending cut. • Oppose every tax rise. New article: Right turn ahead for Reeves and Starmer Against all their instincts, Labour are about to turn further right. Centre-right politicians and think tanks must drive them forward in a situation which is more serious than commonly understood.

Right turn ahead for Reeves and Starmer

Against all their instincts, Labour are about to turn further right. Centre-right politicians and think tanks must drive them forward in a situatio...

I love high-minded idealism as much as anyone, but don’t expect it from the USA for a few years. No amount of fulminating about how President Trump treats President Zelenskyy appallingly by whichever historical comparison will make him behave any differently. The scene is set for Trump to get all he wants, partly by giving Putin what he wants: a broad slice of Ukraine. In all its brute ugliness, we just witnessed the USA wield its mighty power to great effect to meet its own ends, ends which Europe was hoping against hope would not materialise. Expect within weeks for everyone to claim victory as Europe commits to guarantee the peace for a smaller Ukraine, a Ukraine mining minerals for America as America moves on.

Trump vs Zelenskyy

If you don't want disaster, have short press conferences. But President Trump wanted it to run on – why? Power politics: politicians feel the hea...

Sometimes it seems we live in a world where every virtue is twisted and perverted into vice. Love for country is one such virtue, for it is one element which provides for a healthy identity and a basis for those moral sentiments which bind us together as a voluntary community against adversity, both everyday and existential.

Love of country, for good and ill

We can have too much of a good thing: nationalism becomes militant and dangerous. Legitimate love for our country is rightly tempered by respect fo...

🇺🇦 With talk of UK “boots on the ground” in Ukraine to keep any peace, remember the fiasco of Iraq was supposed to have taught everyone what questions to ask. 💡Now would be the time to apply those lessons. 📄.pdf

🙋🏻‍♂️“The methods of money production in society today are profoundly corrupting in ways that would matter to everyone if they were clearly understood.” 📣As gold flows out of the Bank of England and CoinDesk reports on the US National Bitcoin Reserve, here’s my 2014 speech on money 📺Bitcoin, gold and the Bank of England 🗽The most important subject we face is discussed too little: how money is created and how the process corrupts society. My speech on "Money Creation and Society".

Bitcoin, gold and the Bank of England

The most important subject we face is discussed too little: how money is created and how the process corrupts society. My speech on "Money Creation...

Too soon Nigel. Too soon. Nigel Farage is now treading a fearful path to grand failure of his own making; today’s “sources close” story tells me he knows it. The future of our nation already rests on the shoulders of Nigel Farage: he will decide the next government. He has trapped himself by his success and seems to know it.

Too soon Nigel. Too soon.

The future of our nation already rests on the shoulders of Nigel Farage. He has trapped himself by his success and seems to know it. He will decide...