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Posted by RDN under Military Covenant / Politics and campaigns on 2 March 2010. No comments.
The British military tradition is real, but it is up for grabs. Here is my account of a British military which becomes large, clever, multi-purpose, and is deployed worldwide. Along the way, it becomes more commercial, more part-time and more argumentative. More »
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 2 March 2010. No comments.
I want to scrap the BBC, expand the military, phase out the NHS and the rest of the Welfare State, empower Whitehall. What is this unholy muddle? And how does affect politics? Do the Tories get it? More »
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 27 February 2010. No comments.
The Tory leadership under David Cameron clearly lack something. Their followers don’t know what the party’s for. The Cameroons are a bit controlling. Blairite, then. But there’s something more… More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 24 December 2009. No comments.
The little Spiked essay introducing its After Copenhagen climate debate lays out a devil-may-care progressive, anti-green agenda. That’s good fun. But it doesn’t address the difficulty that mankind may have to act on AGW. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / Politics and campaigns on 24 December 2009. No comments.
Here we go again. We are headed for an epoch-making election with an opposition leader who has a horror of authenticity. We don’t need atavastic politics, but it is a big danger that we have political stars whose charisma depends on being bland and controlling. Mr Cameron could do far better. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 4 December 2009. No comments.
It’s a bit early I know but let’s assume that there is a weak agreement at Copenhagen that we really, really ought to do something but only what’s politically feasible, starting quite soon. Here’s a dozen professionals who come away happy. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Mind and body / Politics and campaigns on 1 December 2009. No comments.
Most of the books on global warming science and policy are pretty muddled, hysterical or dreamy by turns. Very few have real quality. Mike Hulme’s book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change seems to be in a different class. More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns on 29 November 2009. No comments.
One often hears David Cameron state rather fiercely that he is a unionist – committed to the United Kingdom consisting of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. But why? It makes no obvious sense. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns / Rightist manifestos on 27 November 2009. No comments.
It is just possible that Philip Blond and the Red Toryism of his ResPublica are the very fig-leaf a true-blue Conservative Party needs. It may be that David Cameron, beyond his bland rebranding of the Tories, is thinking along these lines…. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 24 November 2009. No comments.
Lord Lawson and Benny Peiser are bonny climate change policy warriors but they have perhaps made a strategic error in lining-up climate (or AGW) deniers for their new think-tank. More »
