Destabilisation, not Conquest: Russia’s Real Strategy | Jake Scott
Putin does not need to take Ukraine, or even necessarily enforce the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk. Instead, in many ways, he has done what he really needed to do
Jake Scott
Jake Scott is Chairman of the Mallard and Doctoral Researcher of Political Theory at the University of Birmingham.
Ukraine is the Origin of Europe’s next Refugee Crisis | Jake Scott
Almost no-one is discussing the reality that the next European refugee crisis is brewing in Ukraine, and the hardest truth to face up to is it might not even need Western nations’ involvement to erupt.
Reading Kant’s Significance in the History of Political Ideas | Jake Scott
The purpose of this short enquiry is into the significance that Immanuel Kant’s essay, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (1784) played in the development of political thought. It is widely known...
The Revolution Will Come For You Too | Jake Scott
How do you secure a revolution? It’s quite simple: the day after the revolution, kill the revolutionaries. It is an axiomatic truth that all revolutions come for those who began them in the end:
This is not a Government that works for young people | Jake Scott
The title of this article derives from a thought I had on the YC Panel at the Conservative Party Conference, and the state of the relationship between the old and the young today. Last...
The Decline in Educational Standards | Jake Scott
There needs to be a serious consideration as to what education is for, at every level – clearly, the current attitude of ‘qualifications over skills’ is not working.
Don’t Be Surprised At Hancock | Jake Scott
From the Edwina Currie affair with John Major, to James Gray’s shameful cheating on his wife whilst she died of cancer in 2007, the Conservative Party has a track record of failing to stand by the morals they lecture all the rest of us on.
The Great British Lie | Jake Scott
For constitutionally-minded conservatives, devolution has been an unmitigated failure. It has entrenched division, and eroded the principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty that made the British polity so successful throughout history. Rather than ameliorating the tensions...
Can we learn from the Russian radicals? | Jake Scott
A belief in an historic injustice upon which the entire edifice of society is built, fuels our contemporaries’ faith in the validity of their actions, and the necessity of undoing, by any means possible, the entirety of society.
I Will Not Carry A Vaccine Passport | Jake Scott & William Yarwood
After all, this is simply another part of our long trip down the elite’s beloved road to serfdom, with our own people more than happily holding the state’s hand – skipping towards ultimate servitude.
