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“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust” - how to rediscover trust in modern society
We should be considering how we redesign institutions on a scale that promotes trust as well as efficiency.
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“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust” - how to rediscover trust in modern society
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January 2025
Sympathetic Magic and the Modern Economy
Are big data, macroeconomics and AI more or less sympathetic magic, the sort of things that ancient priests and sages used to summon the gods, ensure…
Jan 31
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Sympathetic Magic and the Modern Economy
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Britain, Culture and the Love of Place
The concerns of those outside the bubble aren’t driven by racism, hatred or ignorance but rather by a love of the place they live and a desire to see it…
Jan 27
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How to find the terrorists (and why 'Prevent', the UK's approach, doesn't work)
An effective counter-terrorism programme will focus far more on the ideation of violence, or indeed actual violence, than on some kid shouting ‘allahu…
Jan 21
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How to find the terrorists (and why 'Prevent', the UK's approach, doesn't work)
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Why Brits don't get America, Ronald Reagan is the greatest post-war president, and y'all should like country music
Most of the time the government is not the solution to our problems and you can be patriotic and proud of your country as well as working hard to better…
Jan 17
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Why Brits don't get America, Ronald Reagan is the greatest post-war president, and y'all should like country music
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Letting the law and lawyers determine negotiations is a strategy for failure
We might not have a government of the lawyers, by the lawyers, for the lawyers, but we have something close, a government that doesn’t believe in its…
Jan 15
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Letting the law and lawyers determine negotiations is a strategy for failure
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It isn't going well for Sir Keir, he needs a real reset
Deregulation, open trade, cheap energy, privatisation and lower taxes from a Labour government. Go on Sir Keir, make that U-turn, be Roger Douglas not…
Jan 10
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It isn't going well for Sir Keir, he needs a real reset
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Reviewing 22 years of talking and writing about street grooming
We need a public enquiry, not to indulge loud politicians who've just discovered the issue but to ask how the British state failed thousands of…
Jan 4
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Reviewing 22 years of talking and writing about street grooming
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December 2024
Yes it is the traditional end of year rant...here's to 2025
During 2025 the British will settle down into an attitude best compared to the persistent drizzle of a typical English autumn. We simply don’t like…
Dec 30, 2024
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Yes it is the traditional end of year rant...here's to 2025
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Buy a chainsaw or build a wall: the Right's political dilemmas
We risk facing a choice between a big authoritarian state run by the progressive left or a big authoritarian state run by the nationalist right.
Dec 27, 2024
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Buy a chainsaw or build a wall: the Right's political dilemmas
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The new Dungeon & Dragons Player's Handbook: 2024's most significant event (and a story about 'woke')
'Woke’ hasn’t gone away but I suspect we might see 2024 as the turning point when people were able again to focus on being kind and respectful rather…
Dec 22, 2024
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The new Dungeon & Dragons Player's Handbook: 2024's most significant event (and a story about 'woke')
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This isn't devolution it's asset stripping district councils to fund social care
What we’ll have is a different, less accessible, geography for bankrupt councils and a system where local government acts primarily as an agent of…
Dec 17, 2024
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This isn't devolution it's asset stripping district councils to fund social care
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