Since 2005 – and especially since the 2008 crash – the ability of the UK state to buy off the mass of the population has been diminishing.

If they are really concerned about future shortages of doctors, teachers and engineers, wouldn’t they be paying youngsters to learn those specialisms?

In a neoliberal system, government itself has become a cargo cult

In lenocratic Britain, failure is by design. To understand this, simply ask cui bono?

While the labour government will have absolute control over legislation, almost all of the problems before us are administrative…

Insofar as there was any truth to Kissinger's statement, it is surely that a global superpower must keep control of the food and energy as well as the money.

In a sane world, the prime minister would be able to bring in experts from outside parliament to either take over or at least support key ministries such as energy, health, and transport...

The betrayal is all the greater because of the false promises made to millions of former Labour voters who lent their votes to Boris Johnson in 2019

Increasing numbers – particularly younger generations – are coming to understand that the entire system is rotten.

This is turning out to be one of those occasions when the satirists are closer to the truth than the professional pundits