Society

The very last thing Sunak needed to do was invite the comparison between the Tories and a sinking ship.

While they claimed to be fighting just wars, it ought not to escape our attention that the imperialists ended up on the losing side.

Enough former Tory voters have switched to third parties, directly to Labour, or given up voting, to cause a big Tory defeat

Britain went to war in 1939 to retain an imperial greatness that had already been mortgaged to the Wall Street bankers.

Most MPs would struggle to change their own socks. So why would anyone imagine they are going to change the energy system?

Given an undeniable fall in prosperity, western electorates have adopted a broadly similar anti-establishment stance

My concern – even before TSHTF in 2008 – was that modern living was producing more “common mental health problems” despite a lack of will to do anything to prevent them.

Insofar as working people are still wedded to Labour it is the result of some distant folk memory.

While the years 1953 to 1973 had seen both rich and poor enjoy rising prosperity, after 1973 only the rich could prosper.

Cutting National Insurance turns us from contributing citizens into mere neo-feudal peasants who live or die at our overlords’ whim.