Gary Lineker ought to be an obscure figure, says Dr David McGrogan, but the fact he is central to the national debate symbolises much of what is wrong with the way things are going. He exudes the midwit phenotype.
Many on the 'new Right' propose that we should be 'Left on the economy and Right on culture'. This is not really possible, argues Dr David McGrogan: a state addicted to intervening in the economy will intervene everywhere.
Sometimes there are genuine conspiracies afoot, not mere theories, says Dr David McGrogan. One such is the plan to abolish cash, which is happening in plain sight and governments show little intention of changing course.
As time goes on, more and more of the green agenda resembles an effort by the global upper classes to pull the drawbridge up behind them and leave the peasants on the other side of the moat forever, says Dr David McGrogan.
We have an acute need for more Miss Trunchbulls, to keep the show on the road and get things done, says Dr. David McGrogan.
Children's rights advocates are finally waking up to the devastation lockdowns visited upon young people. But they still can't bring themselves to admit that schools closures were wrong and should never have happened.
Over a third of young people want to live under a leader who ignores elections and parliaments, according to a recent poll. What's driving this love of authoritarianism and should we be worried?
Genocide has a very specific meaning in law, says Dr. David McGrogan. Bandying the word around and using it of the collateral damage from legitimate military objectives – however awful – lacks moral seriousness.
In 2008, insolvent banks persuaded the Government they were too big to be allowed to go under. Are the same institutions now trying the same trick with Net Zero – positioning themselves as 'too green to fail'?
Dr David McGrogan reflects on the all-pervasive influence of social media on how young people perceive the world and how it dissolves all sense of overarching story, purpose and meaning.
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