Tag: Press

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Complex Sales vs Commodity Sales: Why They’re Two Different Worlds

    Most people think “sales is sales.” It isn’t.Selling a complex solution and selling a commodity are fundamentally different disciplines — different skills, timelines, psychology, and governance. Confusing the two is one of the biggest reasons otherwise promising businesses burn through cash and credibility. Commodity Sales: Linear and Price-Led In a commodity sale, the customer already…

  • The UK Ltd Accounts: Why Politics Barely Matters in the Balance Sheet

    Imagine if the UK were a private company. Each March it would publish its annual accounts, just like Tesco or BP. Analysts would pore over the numbers, investors (you and me, the taxpayers) would worry about the bottom line, and the board (the government of the day) would try to spin the story of “sustainable…

  • Are AI and LLMs Just Another Stepping Stone in Human Progress?

    Throughout history, every major technological advancement has reshaped the way societies work, think, and live. From the printing press to the industrial revolution, the automobile, and the internet, each paradigm shift has amazed those who lived through it, offering previously unimaginable capabilities and disrupting the status quo. Today, we’re witnessing the rise of Artificial Intelligence…