Execution by Accounting | Samuel Turnball
This month the Bank of England recently announced a rise of interest rates by 0.75%. What has been touted as the fastest interest rate rise in 30 years of UK economic history, is in...
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Oswald Spengler: Prophet of Doom? | Boško Vuković
The legendary German historian, Oswald Spengler, was born in the German Empire on the 29th of May, 1880 AD. He is best known for his two-volume book The Decline of the West, published after...
Show Shamima Some Respect! | David Clark
In August 1892 at Fall River USA, when a young spinster discovered her father had recently changed his will giving the majority of his property to Mr Borden’s newly acquired wife, she promptly hacked...
One Simple Way to Fix the Government | Daniel Evans
Sorry, not this government. The idea of proportional representation seems to be fluttering about, but you don’t even need to go that far. There’s a much simpler solution which doesn’t rely on changing the...
Forget The Greenbelt: YIMBYs Should Focus On Permitted Development | Alice Cassandra
Britain needs housing. We all (aside from a tiny minority who don’t understand the concept of household formation) know this. And those of us who want that housing all know exactly who is to...
Just Stop Oil Alliance Proposal | Joe King
Dear Just Stop Oil, You’re a success. You stuck to your principles through ridicule and hate. You’ve carried a burden. Others may still dismiss you, but that’s also an achievement. They didn’t even know...
Safe and Effective: Reviewing Oracle Films’ Ground-Breaking Documentary | Jack Campion
It seems strange to think that the country has come through one of the most authoritarian governments in its entire history but it wasn’t that long ago you weren’t able to spend Christmas with...
Tyranny in Plain Sight: The Classism of Modern Architecture | Mitchell Foyle-York
“Very few faults of architecture are mistakes of honest choice: they are almost always hypocrisies”. There is perhaps no greater testament to the genius of John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice than this claim....
It’s Not Just Hercules; The Procurement Problem Is Systemic | Will Cooney
The 2021 Defence Command Paper, despite being published just a year ago, now feels anachronous when viewed through the current geopolitical lens. Since its publication we have seen the illegal invasion of Ukraine, US...
Win Big, Win Small; Win Everywhere | Otis Griffin
“We’re going to win so much; we’re going to win at every level…You may even get tired of winning.” Donald Trump is not an orator in the traditional sense of an eloquent speaker, but...
