Reader, I promise thee here such things, which ordinarily promised, doe seeme to challenge the greatest attention, and I lay them here before thine eyes, whether thou regard the dignity or profit of the matter treated of, or the right method of handling it, or the honest motive, and good advice to undertake it, or lastly the moderation of the Authour.
Fill(et)ing the Lords – 1
It is only a few months since we were comparing the House of Commons to its behaviour before the Civil War. Now we have a Cavalier Parliament in ...
Enter Ross
There stands a new party leader: Douglas Ross, chosen swiftly without contest when lesser candidates withdrew in the sight of his coming. The new ...
Labour: wear a mask when shopping on-line
This week’s Labour health spokesmxn, Jonathan Ashworth, expressed outrage that the Government has not gone far enough in enforcing face ...
The UK Internal Market consultation
Little heralded perhaps, but important, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has issued a White Paper entitled “UK ...
Empire, interrupted
If it is not China, it is Russia or Iran or Turkey: dangerous states with ambitions far beyond their borders and memories far beyond our. ...
The Russia Report: was that it then?
I read it. It is short. It says nothing we did not know already: Putin’s Russia has a persecution complex and is trying to subvert western ...
The beggars: fake charities
There was a longstanding rule in charity law that political purposes cannot be charitable. Political purposes includes any purpose to change the ...
China: a world apart
China, the inexplicable – I found it impossible to write one article about why the Chinese government behaves the way it does, so unlike what we ...