Tag: Media

  • Margaret Thatcher and the Comfort of Relief

    Part I: – What Changed – and Why It Felt Right Britain did not arrive at the end of the 1970s on the brink of collapse. It arrived tired, frustrated, and increasingly doubtful of itself. Inflation had become part of everyday life, eroding wages in ways that were visible week by week rather than year…

  • NATO, Burden-Sharing, and the End of a Post-War Security Bargain

    Debate over NATO burden-sharing has intensified as the United States demands greater defence contributions from its allies. While contemporary data clearly show that the US contributes a disproportionate share of NATO’s military capability, this imbalance cannot be understood in isolation from the post-Second World War international order deliberately constructed by the United States itself. This…

  • Why Britain Always Spends the Future

    North Sea oil was not a one-off mistake. It was a rehearsal. Once a country learns that windfalls can be consumed without obvious immediate penalty, the behaviour repeats. Britain’s modern history is a sequence of moments where capital was treated as income, and the future quietly paid the bill. This pattern predates oil and continues…

  • The Long Clock and the Short Clock: Why Power Is Quietly Shifting

    There is a divide shaping the modern world that most voters sense but rarely see explained clearly. It is not left versus right, democracy versus dictatorship, or even East versus West. It is far more basic than that. Some political systems are allowed to think in decades. Others are trapped thinking in election cycles. Once…

  • An Open Letter to the Government of the United Kingdom

    To those elected to lead this country, You should be ashamed of yourselves. You have let us down. And before any of you try to twist this into a partisan argument — don’t. The decline we are living through did not start a year ago, or five years ago, or under one party. It has…

  • Britain: A Multi-Trillion-Pound Business Run by Amateurs

    How a once-serious nation became a masterclass in short-termism and mismanagement Introduction — Systemic, Cross-Party Failure The UK’s political crisis isn’t ideological — it’s operational. Every major party has taken turns running the country, and every one of them has left the same underlying problems untouched. The system isn’t failing because the “wrong team” won;…

  • The UK Mansion Tax Debate

    A Government Making Policy by Vibes, Not Strategy Let’s start with the only honest statement available right now: there is no mansion tax. Not in the Budget. Not in draft legislation. Not in published modelling. The government hasn’t set thresholds, valuation rules, revenue assumptions, enforcement plans or regional impact analysis. Nothing. What we do have…

  • The role of the press.

    Seeing this in a mailshot I received today from The Daily Maverick reminds me of a post from some time ago about just this subject, it rings true today as much as it did then. “The print, broadcast and electronic media have a particular role in the protection of freedom of expression in our society.…

  • Mobile Phone Revolution: Unleashing the Potential of Mobile Phone Usage in the African Continent

    In rcent years, the African continent has witnessed a remarkable transformation in mobile phone usage, revolutionizing various sectors and empowering individuals. With a significant increase in mobile phone penetration rates, Africa has emerged as a hub of innovation and opportunity. This blog post explores the impact of mobile phone usage in Africa, highlighting its role…