Governments of every political stripe have complained that the civil service obstructs their plans. Dr David McGrogan looks at how a little known legal ruling gets in the way of bring civil servants to heel.
In a recent BBC interview, Melinda Gates claimed that "the world was built for men". Certainly it was built by men, says Dr David McGrogan. But it's a very distorted view which says men built it only for themselves.
Britain needs to bring in negative interest rates via digital currency, raise taxes and increase inflation, according to Jeremy Hunt's economic adviser. Why have the Tories turned their backs on prosperity?
'A Kids Book About Immigration' is as awful as it sounds, says Dr. David McGrogan, who has read it so you – and your children – don't have to. Whatever happened to the subtle art of storytelling?
The Speaker's failure to uphold the Parliamentary rule book last week points to a larger problem among those tasked with running our institutions – they've ceased to believe in them, says Dr David McGrogan.
'Elderly couple told they had to sell home to house asylum seekers' is a headline tailor-made for the anxieties of 2024. And while the actual story was not so blood-boiling, it still shows our property rights are in peril.
Why is Western civilisation increasingly governed by people taken in by the latest shallow intellectual fads? Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist has some convincing answers, says Dr. David McGrogan.
We're having a "national conversation about the future of money", according to the Bank of England. But it's clear this "conversation" has only one permitted outcome, says Dr David McGrogan: the digital pound.
What was most sinister about the striking off of Mr. Adil from the Medical Register for spreading Covid 'conspiracy theories' is that what the court was most concerned about was his refusal to recant his beliefs in public.
The surgeon struck off by the GMC for publishing Covid "conspiracy theories" shows that our so-called right to free speech is subject to the whims of officials and judges, says law expert Dr. David McGrogan.
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