Sitemap - 2024 - The View from Cullingworth

Yes it is the traditional end of year rant...here's to 2025

Buy a chainsaw or build a wall: the Right's political dilemmas

The new Dungeon & Dragons Player's Handbook: 2024's most significant event (and a story about 'woke')

This isn't devolution it's asset stripping district councils to fund social care

Is that all? Thoughts on Labour's underwhelming planning reforms

Politicians lie because we don't want to hear the truth

There ain't no policy gold in them there data mountains

Old Billy Was Right: Why we need to rein in the lawyers

Socialism, Antisemitism and Attacking Schoolgirls on a Bus

It’s Black Friday! Everything Must Go! (A case for less government)

You don't fix the failures of bureaucracy with more bureaucracy (or as someone said: 'afuera!')

The town I loved so well (or maybe not)

British conservatives must remember free trade and capitalism made the nation rich

Why Trump won (a communications view)

The Scrooge McDuck Fallacy (and why wealth taxes are a bad idea)

The myth of working people

Taxation isn’t just theft, it is gaslighting, social engineering and moral panic too

Why building new council houses is a bad idea

We are badly governed. This is why Donald Trump might win next month.

Bonus post on the Tory leadership contest: immigration policy and the need for a better Tory intellectual life

No Kemi and Bobby are not hard right, but they need to be more punk

Lessons for tomorrow: remembering Oct 7th

Chippy tea and going for a walk: Exploring Englishness

Building new tram systems is a waste of money and bad transport planning

Regeneration doesn't work

Death doesn't become you: assisted dying is just killing people

Why process matters more than strategy (and we should invest in it)

Beyond Clapham, adventures in the mind of the urban elite

Signposts to the end of our 'free stuff' culture

Who's your pick? Thoughts on the Conservative Party leadership contest

Banning smoking in beer gardens won't save a single life or the NHS a penny

A little break

Punk conservatism, mass membership & closing the social gap: more thoughts for Tories

Where should a new Conservative leader start?

If the fans make football then football's already home.

Don Camillo for Tory leader! Lessons for conservatives

The Conservative Party has always been a 'One Nation' party - it is nothing when it isn't

Election 2024: some thoughts on what happened and where we're headed

Some "far-right" nostalgia

If we want better politicians, we need to break the precious 'constituency link'

Why I stopped being a YIMBY

"One wall, Two wall, Red wall, Blue wall"

Mass immigration is our choice. Don't blame people for wanting a better life.

We can't afford the government

Seeking a route through the woods: a future for the Conservative Party

It's Your Fault: How government gaslights its citizens

"It was not an accident": The Crisis of Accountability in Public Authorities

Why do we have unserious politicians and an unserious media

Why Pakistanis should be Zionists

Singing the Deep State Blues. How conservatives can govern in a hostile environment.

Liz Truss is right (as were Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher)

It ain't frothy man! Why Reform is a damp squib

Urban densification without planning reform won't solve our housing crisis

Government has abandoned suburbia. Perhaps it should pay a visit?

Men will still want a Jolly Boys' Outing when the girls can join The Garrick

Pushing water uphill. Making the case for freedom.

Welcome to the 'Great City of the West' - mankind's dead end

Everyone except liberals are political extremists. Thoughts on political violence and ideology

We need a 21st century Thatcherism not more Heseltine or Brown

Government of the NIMBY, for the NIMBY, by the NIMBY

Time for real 'levelling up' - move Parliament and Whitehall to Bradford

Why do we have government? The case for soft loo paper.

There is nothing except political will stopping us fixing our housing crisis. And doing so is free.

Leeds doesn't need a (value-destroying, loss-making) tram

Poor laws, witches and welfare: why private initiative should be part of a good system of poverty relief

We need to stop missing the point

Squatting on Planet Mushroom (which is why we need more mycologists)

Marketers aren't 'hacking your brain' they are just good communicators

How Guilty Rich Women are making the world worse for boys

My friends, all of our interests do not match those of The State

We should allow people to build a new suburbia

Labour and Conservative public health policies are good for gangsters and bad for smokers and kids

MYOB - on the moral superiority of libertarianism