Keir Starmer's coming revolution is more radical than his opponents realise, says J Sorel. His vision is to codify Blair's Britain and place it beyond the reach of politicians in the hands of bureaucrats and judges.
The World Economic Forum likes to present itself as forward thinking and leading humanity into a bright, progressive future. But in truth the Davos ideology is fundamentally atavistic and anti-modern, says J Sorel.
In the Britain of the 2020s, politicians have the habit of abruptly disappearing, the victim of one or other parliamentary standards body. These shadowy pseudo-courts undermine our sovereign parliament, says J. Sorel.
The National Theatre bookshop epitomises the BBC-ification of 'Culture' into a Public Sphere melange. A new play, The Motive and the Cue, avoids this trap, but still ultimately fails, says J Sorel.
In his isolationism, his dull, vague anti-Englishness and his peevish solemnity, Mark Drakeford was Carolean Britain’s modal statesman, says J Sorel.
Stratford used to be a commercially successful manufacturing centre. Now, it tries to get by on tourism, retail therapy, sport, sport science, postgraduate education and leisure. Is this Britain's future, asks J Sorel?
J Sorel reviews The Right to Rule and The Plot for the Daily Sceptic and is unconvinced that Britain is ruled by schemers and intriguers. They're no match for the courts, the Civil Service and the Ministerial Code.
The problem with Jordan Peterson's 'anti-woke Davos' ARC conference was its air of surrender, says J Sorel. "The unspoken assumption behind most of the speeches was that a flight to the hills would be necessary."
English architecture has now reached a consensus, says J Sorel. "That is: that there can be no escape from the madding crowd. Every public place is to become a walkable, human-scaled sitting area-cum-playground."
Every Parliament for the last 30 years has had a mandate to cut immigration. Add a referendum result and it's the largest democratic mandate for any measure in modern history. So when will it happen, asks J Sorel.
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