The ‘Gremlin virus’ and the curfew
At the stroke of the hour, COVID Marshalls, ready to risk life and limb, are deployed to the streets of Britain to protect their community from this existential threat.
Humans and society
Humans are social creatures by nature, and we need the sense of belonging and identity that society provides us, as well as the support of its members, to exist.
Still think Johnson cares about liberty? I have a bridge to sell you
The Conservative Party’s rhetoric – aimed at quelling increasing lockdown scepticism – is far removed from its action.
If Biden wants to have a good legacy, he should abolish the filibuster
Abolishing the filibuster would allow the American President and the elected party to fulfil their mandate and the promises they made to the people.
‘The American people really deserve an answer’ – Pence claims victory over Harris’s faux sincerity
The Vice President, in stark contrast to the President, remained calm and collected throughout; however, his assault on the Biden-Harris platform, from its plans to reverse the Trump tax cuts to its use of the Green New Deal as a framework for its energy policy, was just as uncompromising.
The decline of televised debates
Increasingly, as politics becomes more partisan, those that watch debates are more often than not those that already have their minds made up and want to watch to root for their favoured candidate.
Splendid isolation is right for Britain
The only real answer if we want to preserve the United Kingdom is splendid isolation.
More proportion and balance is needed in the Covid debate
Given his populist agenda to revive the high street and ‘level-up’ deprived areas of Britain, Boris Johnson’s eagerness to apply blunt shutdowns in these regions is nothing less than a betrayal of his voters.