
Britain Needs a Bastard
Leaders are simply better—more effective, more popular at their peaks, more trusted in the moments that matter—precisely when they refuse to pretend they are better than the rest of us.

Leaders are simply better—more effective, more popular at their peaks, more trusted in the moments that matter—precisely when they refuse to pretend they are better than the rest of us.

The real irony: the designers wanting to celebrate native wildlife are guided by the same bureaucracy that, next door, is dismantling rural England—banning hunting and taxing family farms.

According to the Bank of England, around 60% of respondents selected ‘nature’ as one of their preferred themes on the banknotes.

The danger of 1938 was not too much realism—it was too little. And that is what we risk repeating today, not by negotiating, but by refusing to do so.

Churchill was remarkably clear-eyed about the dangers of the soulless and secular statism promoted by everyone from the Bloomsbury elites to the twin barbarisms of Bolshevism and Nazism.