The sugar tax sums up Britain's descent into a technocratic dystopia, says Dr David McGrogan. While our Government does almost nothing well, it remains a world-leader in passive-aggressive, surreptitious nudging.
Why do we fail to deport those whom we should deport? It's due in the end, says Dr David McGrogan, to an excess of pity. We are pitying ourselves into disorder and social decay. We need to be willing not to be nice.
Freedom of speech is being replaced by its antithesis, the 'right to participate', says Dr David McGrogan. This is where the battle lines are drawn as conservatives push back against the authoritarian tide.
Why are anti-woke Rangers fans given lifetime stadium bans but pro-Hamas Celtic fans get off much more lightly? It's because supporting Palestine is part of our elites' luxury beliefs, says Dr David McGrogan.
Climate policy should be taken away from elected politicians, a former Supreme Court Justice has said. If you think we've passed peak woke, think again, says Dr David McGrogan.
If the 'purpose of a system is what it does' then the asylum system has one clear purpose, says Dr David McGrogan: to expand the busywork of the Deep State to an indefinite degree, to all the people of the world.
There is a political movement that is dying before our very eyes. It lives under a variety of names. For Dr David McGrogan it is Nice Right Liberalism: the belief that deep down everyone is really a decent English chap.
The asylum courts have gone, to use the technical term, nuts, says legal expert Dr David McGrogan. The real problem is human rights 'law' which, properly speaking, is not law at all, but raw judicial whim.
What the Brexit Leave vote, and Boris Johnson’s eventual triumph, seemed to in the end achieve was only the revelation of the extent to which British institutions have been hollowed out and corrupted, says David McGrogan.
Diversity kitsch is all around us. But as the grim fact forcefully confronts us that some immigrants hate their hosts so much they want to murder and rape them, David McGrogan senses that it is at last falling from favour.
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