What Kind of Country?
- April 25, 2017
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- Matt
Every society, no matter how sophisticated or ‘modern’ it thinks it has become, contains within itself the ability to go forward and backwards. All societies contain the potential for tolerance and intolerance; for generosity, openness, and empathy and also for mean-spirited callousness, arrogance,selfishness and cruelty. Every society includes people and communities that are open to the outside world and those that are fearful, resentful and bitter about their proximity to people who look and sound different to themselves, and who regard the presence of immigrants and foreigners as usurpers and...
May’s Gambit
- April 19, 2017
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- Matt
Three years is a long time in politics, but for Theresa May, it clearly isn’t long enough. Only two days after telling the nation of her ‘sense’ that the country is ‘coming together’, the Vicar’s daughter has made it clear that she doesn’t want to remain in power until 2020: she wants to annihilate the...
The Gospel According to Saint Theresa
- April 17, 2017
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- Matt
I’ve always tended to reject the ‘ all religion is evil and stupid’ arguments emanating from hyper-rationalists of the left and right, not because I’m particularly religious myself, but because religion can perform many different social roles and functions. It can, for instance, be a force for reaction, tyranny and exploitation, but...
The House that Brexit Built
- April 05, 2017
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- Matt
With less than a week since HM Government presented the EU with the letter, the lineaments of the new British future are already beginning to emerge out of the fog of incompetence, lies and fading promises, and it isn’t a pretty sight. Before Article 50 had been triggered, Michael Gove was looking forward...
The Anglo-Spanish War
- April 02, 2017
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- Matt
One thing about political reality – in the end you can’t avoid it. You can try, as Theresa May and her weird little Brexit government have been doing for the last eight months or so. You can beat your rhetorical chest and bare your teeth. You can threaten this and promise...
Liberation Day
- March 30, 2017
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- Matt
No matter what the future may bring, those of us who were lucky enough to be alive and British on March 29 2017 will never forget the glorious day when the United Kingdom finally threw off the yoke of the European Union. In the years to come, perhaps very soon, we will hold a national...
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