J Sorel is perplexed by Rory Stewart’s memoir. The presence of an overbearing, rampant Civil Service is mentioned throughout, but Rory’s solution to 'Broken Britain' is a massive reduction in Parliament's powers.
The British people have had enough of their seemingly endless 'obligations' to impoverish themselves for the sake of others, and belatedly politicians are waking up to this, says J Sorel.
The intervention of the RSPB in the housebuilding debate is the latest in a familiar pattern of 'cute' English institutions making partisan interventions against what they perceive as harmful populism, says J Sorel.
J Sorel dissects the recently unveiled portrait of the Speaker of the House, finding it to be the perfect expression of a ruling class that believes it's under siege and asserts its authority with hysterical earnestness.
Using the term 'geopolitics' conveys an air of world-weary cynicism that its users believe makes them look like they're carrying the weight of history on their shoulders. But it's an empty cliché, says J Sorel.
The Monster Raving Loony Party bills itself as a brilliant piece of satire, taking the Mickey out of politicians. But according to J Sorel, it's actually a tool for the enforcement of Establishment orthodoxy.
Is it time to retire Britain's 'national treasures'? Most now seem to disappear down the plughole of sexual incontinence and scandal.
Canary Wharf, London's bold 1990s financial district, is in decline. But why are we surprised when the Left-wing councils surrounding it have been allowed to strangle it, says J. Sorel.
The 'New Britain' constitution cooked up by Labour's Gordon Brown threatens to end Britain's parliamentary democracy by embedding the power of the civil service and sub-national Government, says J Sorel.
Net Zero doesn’t envisage a transformation of industrial society, only a gradual and forced winding down of living standards, and its buildings and street interventions reflect that, writes J Sorel.
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