Immigration: Stop Pandering
- February 02, 2019
- by
- Matt
If there is one thing British politicians always seem able to agree on, it’s that they must respond to public concerns about immigration.
Rarely, if ever, do the politicians who seek to placate these concerns consider their validity. Is it true that Romanians and Bulgarians are all poor and therefore likely to be criminals – an...
Parliament Passes the Bomb
- January 30, 2019
- by
- Matt
Some of you may remember the family game called Pass the Bomb. For those haven’t played it, the rules are simple: You pass a ticking bomb back and forth between the group and try to make sure you aren’t the one holding it when it ‘explodes’.
This is what parliament did yesterday, in a monumental dereliction...
Fyre Festival: Burning Down the House
- January 26, 2019
- by
- Matt
I wasn’t aware of the 2017 Fyre Festival till I watched Netflix’s new documentary last night, and it was fairly jawdropping and astonishing viewing. It would be disingenuous of me to deny that there’s something morbidly satisfying about watching thousands of rich narcissists arrive on a Caribbean island for a non-existent festival, only to find...
Brexit: The Stab-in-the-Back
- January 24, 2019
- by
- Matt
It’s now becoming increasingly clear, even to its most ardent defenders, that Brexit is not going swimmingly. Having inflicted the most comprehensive parliamentary defeat ever inflicted on a British prime minister, parliament is in a state of fevered chaos, with MPs frantically trying to prevent the country from sliding towards no deal, yet unable to...
Donald Trump’s Lyin’ Eyes
- January 22, 2019
- by
- Matt
If there’s one thing that has defined Donald Trump’s presidency more than anything else, it’s his startling propensity for lying.
According to the Washington Post‘s Fact Checker database, Trump has made 7, 645 ‘false or misleading claims’ since taking office. Last October alone, the WP found that he said ‘1,200 things that were false or misleading.’
It...
You Won, Get Over It
- January 20, 2019
- by
- Matt
There are some historical laws that can’t be avoided, and one of them is this: that if a country aspires towards something that is objectively impossible, sooner or later that impossibility, like gravity, will impose itself in ways that are impossible to resist or ignore.
You might be able to get away with this for a...
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