Change and a renewed betterment for ordinary people does not come through the management, good or bad, of accepted certainties but through those certainties being challenged and questioned.
In the dire case of the UK, any revival of democratic pluralism could only occur after a massive (and almost inevitably ugly) shake down of its entrenched civil service and parasitic legal cultures....I'm not holding my breath.
"Unsurprisingly, neither governmental bureaucracies and quangos nor other civil institutions keep statistics on the political leanings of their employees. But there are clues. Unherd columnist Peter Franklin reflecting on his own experience of working in two UK government departments comments: “How many of the civil servants that most closely serve this Conservative government are actually Leftwing? Well....I would say approximately all of them”.
The people must be saved from themselves, as the priests insist. That's what the P in PMC now represents.
People I know genuinely hate the 'masses' in the same kind of way Sunni hate Shia. I can't shake this feeling that fear of evil and love of religious zeal are primordial in the secular modern west.
This strike by UAW seems to undermine the idea that the working class are sensible. But the PMC is also bonkers. https://open.substack.com/pub/theindustry/p/strike?r=b5zww&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
In the dire case of the UK, any revival of democratic pluralism could only occur after a massive (and almost inevitably ugly) shake down of its entrenched civil service and parasitic legal cultures....I'm not holding my breath.
"Unsurprisingly, neither governmental bureaucracies and quangos nor other civil institutions keep statistics on the political leanings of their employees. But there are clues. Unherd columnist Peter Franklin reflecting on his own experience of working in two UK government departments comments: “How many of the civil servants that most closely serve this Conservative government are actually Leftwing? Well....I would say approximately all of them”.
https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/carry-on-governing
A great article. Absolutely spot on. It’s clear that the UK needs a new, populist party. One as I say here, that might Nan could have voted for. https://open.substack.com/pub/lowstatus/p/in-praise-of-populism?r=evzeq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The people must be saved from themselves, as the priests insist. That's what the P in PMC now represents.
People I know genuinely hate the 'masses' in the same kind of way Sunni hate Shia. I can't shake this feeling that fear of evil and love of religious zeal are primordial in the secular modern west.