The Online Safety Bill — an analsis | Edward Kendall
This is all very well if the law protects freedom of speech, but gives little satisfaction to those who live in jurisdictions where free speech is not legally protected. This is really the crux of the matter and why the legal protection of free speech is so important. Furthermore, this is why it is so important to make sure that the Online Safety Bill is shelved or at the very least significantly changed, because freedom of speech online is seriously imperilled by this draft legislation.
Britain must prepare for a global food crisis | Dominic Lawson
If the British government is serious about “levelling up” and intends for this to be a real policy rather than a slogan to be regurgitated by a thousand midwit journalists, it should develop our agricultural sector as a priority. This will be the job of permanent experts, not politicians, who are far too dependent on five year plans and the minutiae of the media cycle to push for any policies which will cost in the near term but benefit us further down the line.
Reflections on the crisis of progressivism | Albert Bikaj
The consequences of this radical change have begun to show its fruits. Today it has different names, labels and definitions, namely such as ‘Wokeness’ and ‘Cancel Culture’, but one of the most interesting definitions was coined by Pope Emeritus himself. He categorised it as ‘dictatorship of relativism’ — a tyrannical and anti-intellectual ideology which according to him ‘does not recognise anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires’. This is what we would call half-truths or what we often hear as ‘my-truth’ and ‘your truth’.
Easter economics — inflation stagflation | Chris Davies
What goes up must come down apparently but not for a while at least in the case of inflation and it’s nasty cousin, stagflation. The latest economic metrics make for grim reading. Despite the slew of “good news” from the government last week, this week has been politically bruising.
The Great ‘British’ Reset | Chris Davies
I have spent some time of late contemplating the direction of travel of the United Kingdom in the run up to the forthcoming local elections, which will be a timely assessment of the government’s popularity, coming as they do broadly half way through a 5 year term.
I summarise below 6 key issues that I believe will affect voting intentions in the forthcoming local elections
Spring Statement 2022 — an economic analysis | Chris Davies
Along with his Instagram account and his wife’s £12M dividend from Infosys, who continue “business as usual” trading in their Moscow office, Sunak would do well to keep his head buried in the red ink of inflation, energy hikes and resulting falling living standards that are the perfect alchemy for electoral distress for the government at the local elections in May.
Now there’s more interest in economic data | Chris Davies
Whilst it would be churlish to ignore the impact of COVID-19 and it is only reasonable to acknowledge the effect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it would also be foolish to pretend that the majority of the turbulence the UK economy is suffering and will endure in 2022 does not emanate from government “policy”.
Children and the beauty of folklore — our culture is poorer without it | Alisha Rose
But what is folklore? It is the beliefs, customs and stories of communities. It is woven from a tantalising blend of truth and fiction, passed down through spoken form.
The trouble with suppresing inflation — no energy or interest | Chris Davies
We are living in a period of macroeconomic instability, which combined with the highest level of geopolitical instability since 1945, could have a severe, negative impact on the lives of millions of British subjects.
The government needs to act decisively, ditch Net Zero dogma and restore control over interest rate policy to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose possession it should never have left.