Month: August 2025
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ASYLUM.Immigration is significantly less important to younger UK voters than their elders. It does not even feature amongst younger peoples’ “Top 5” issues (discussed this in a previous post on UK Youth Issues in June, sorry.) However, when conflated with the “Small Boats” crisis, immigration has become the most incendiary issue in British politics in…
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In a moment of irritation with current Russian “negotiations” so transparently designed only to delay, while extracting maximum concessions from the Great Dealmaker, I thought that it might be useful to “game” the outcomes of the conflict. You never know… Лучше быть несчастным, зная обо всём, чем счастливым в неведении.It is better to be unhappy…
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During this vacation season it is hard to avoid taking a look at Russia’s Ukrainian War. It really is vicariously embarrassing. Last week Vlad scored an absurdly predictable win. Putin took up DJT’s invitation to rejoin the “normal” world with talks in Alaska. The chess-playing Russian dictator seems to have persuaded the “why stick to…
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Britain Can’t Make Its Mind Up. Don’t let your indecision/Take you from behind/Trust your inner vision/Don’t let others change your mind. Classic 1981 Summer fluff with exceptionally poor lip-synching from Bucks Fizz riffs on 50 years of UK indecisiveness.
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MERITOCRACY VS POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION – The tension between meritocracy and positive discrimination has shaped numerous debates in British politics since the mid-20th century, focusing on how to ensure fair access and optimal outcomes in education, employment and the conduct of public offices. Recent policy shifts, such as the government’s proposal to reserve civil service internships…