The View from Cullingworth

The View from Cullingworth

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Hilary Mantel and the assassination of Charlie Kirk: how bien pensant leftists valorise political violence
It sometimes seems that a whole load of socialists think they’d be on the barricades fighting the fascists were it not for their job as a lawyer…
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Environmental concerns are no excuse for not looking after public spaces
An unholy alliance between cost pressures and the climate cult is making England's public realm untidy and unattractive
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"A Comprehensive Analysis of Simon Cooke’s Political Ideology" (courtesy of AI)
I asked followers on X to demystify my political position. One @AyeUpBradford, who understands these things crafted an AI prompt and produced what…
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How you read a letter and why this matters in today's online world. Trust me.
In this world, almost everything you see is fake and manipulative because without doing that you can’t get the attention needed to make the game work…
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August 2025

Now is not the time to change the manager: the case for keeping Kemi
Reform’s destructive radicalism or the fragmented left’s anti-growth progressivism represent a terrible choice. Another bout of Tories ripping into each…
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Every girl may be crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man but there aren't many left: the hegemony of American Casual
American Casual means men no longer appear to make an effort beyond making sure the shirt is clean and the trainers don’t have mud on them.
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No everything is not fine (even if overall crime has fallen)
Saying that everything is fine when it plainly isn’t, even if we start with an objective look at rates of crime, merely fuels the idea that our…
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If people can buy dirt they'll have families.
Yimbyland culture presents an excuse for the fact folk can't buy a house with talk of walkability, liveability and standing on the balcony of a small…
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July 2025

If Britain wants better public infrastructure it needs to restore the power of local government to build it
The untidy mish-mash of local provision had built public utilities, enabled housing, laid out roads and, on top of that, provided parks, swimming pools…
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"It could buy me a boat": how elite conservatives lost touch with their voters
if you treat your voters as irredeemably naff, you deserve to lose
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Britain isn't lurching towards civil war, it's just a mess
Britain’s problem, other than a complacent and entitled public sector leadership, is that nothing much works any more and lots of things that were once…
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State capacity isn't a substitute for bad policy: is Britain ready for tobacco wars?
Australia’s tobacco wars are a consequence of ‘high state capacity’ and the authoritarian belief that if government mandates prohibition then strong…
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