Society

It is notable that while nine of Thatcher’s cabinet were war veterans, the neoliberals, were mostly from the so-called “Silent Generation”

What this adds up to is an economic and political crisis on a scale that no previous generation of politicians has ever had to deal with.

My recent conversation on the EIM podcast

Folks sharing AI slop likely do so in good faith, since it fits their preexisting beliefs

Those of us who have travelled across the empire have been wilfully blind to the signs of collapse all around us

2026 looks set to continue the negative trends that I identified this time last year

As we enter an age of algorithmic machine learning, the dumbing down of government is bound to accelerate

The problem facing the UK state is the same problem facing Big Tech… active IT systems are energy hogs.

The combination of an extremely unpopular Labour government and a new voting system has left Welsh Labour extremely vulnerable

Britain’s story is different in detail but has some interesting parallels.