Epstein’s Monsters
- July 15, 2019
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- Matt
Many people will be familiar with the observation made by John Stuart Mill in 1867 that ‘Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.’ This is true as far as it goes, but there are also cases when the triumph of evil is not...
Our Ex-Man in Washington
- July 11, 2019
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- Matt
One of the most extraordinary revelations during our ongoing descent into the political vortex has been the supine feebleness and incompetence with which the British ruling classes have responded to a direct threat from the right to their most cherished institutions. Back in the 1970s there were weird rightwing organisations like Moral Rearmament, secret service...
The Brexit Party: All Men Shall (Not) Be Brothers
- July 04, 2019
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- Matt
In case anyone ever doubts what a sad, petty and downright nasty country we are becoming, the Brexit Party will always be there to remind us. On Monday, they managed to stage a mighty protest by turning their backs – turning their backs I tell you! – on a young orchestra playing Beethoven’s...
The Resistible Rise of Boris the Clown
- June 26, 2019
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- Matt
Yesterday morning I watched Boris Johnson give two absolute car crash interviews on LBC and Talk Radio. It was hard to know which of them was the worst: the one in which he refused to answer Nick Ferrari’s question regarding the date of his ‘Boris and Carrie’ photo, or the one in which he mumbled...
The Tory Party Has Gone Missing
- June 21, 2019
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- Matt
Some readers may have heard of the mass hallucinations that took place at the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951. As John Grant Fuller describes it in The Day of Saint Anthony’s Fire, on 15 August that year the entire village of 250 inhabitants woke up and began seeing visions. One man sat down to...
Hollow Man: Boris Johnson’s Delusions of Grandeur
- June 19, 2019
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- Matt
“It can safely be said that the last three years have not been fruitful ones in the history of the United Kingdom. Politically speaking, the 2016 referendum has opened a political hellmouth straight out of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which a seemingly endless procession of charlatans, mediocrities and outright monstrosities haunts the polis with messages that...
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