Now look how many sorts of things there are which properly fall within the cognizance of humane reason, into so many branches does the tree of philosophy divide it selfe. And from the diversity of the matter about which they are conversant, there hath been given to those branches a diversity of Names too
Hobbes: De Cive
Action
- Housing: courting injustice – 1
- Our plan for the new Prime Minister
- Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have – 1
- Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have – 2
- Register the establishment
- Rules for conservatives?
- The Curses of Caesarea
- The doctor and the silent usurpers
- The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
America
Brexit
- Accidental spies; useful idiots
- Aggressive timidity exploited
- Believe in the bin
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- Fixing the Withdrawal Agreement
- Gyimah gymnastics
- Has the hour of the SDP come at last?
- Have I missed something…?
- If it prosper
- It’s not about Europe
- Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
- Mindless commentary; victorless result; pointless election
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
- Securing the exit endgame
- The Alliance revolution, possibly
- The vote and the trust issue
- Theresa shoots for an open own-goal
- Top people are people too
- Treason, stupidity, recklessness or hypocrisy?
- Vive L’Empereur?
- Westminster in the exit endgame
Constitution
- Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
- Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
- Military coup in Westminster
- Murmuring the Judges – 1
- Murmuring the judges – 2
- On popular grievances
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Register the establishment
- The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
Fay Kinuise
- Chuka who chucked ChUK chuckles and swallows the bird
- Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
- Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- Magical Scottish town appears briefly from the mist
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Revealed: why Britain did not reach the Moon first
- Ten new Constituencies now under offer
- The Leadership election falls asleep again
Inside the Bubble
- And then there were seven
- Believe in the bin
- Boris, the chosen one
- Brecon and Radical Rethink
- Chuka who chucked ChUK chuckles and swallows the bird
- Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
- Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
- Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
- Downing Street: and so it begins
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- Five try to squeeze through one door
- Green light, red faces, and Amber
- Gyimah gymnastics
- Has the hour of the SDP come at last?
- Have I missed something…?
- How would I answer last night’s leadership questions?
- If it prosper
- Is Boris Good Enough?
- It’s not about Europe
- Jeremy, hunted by his own quick hounds
- Leadership or caution
- Mindless commentary; victorless result; pointless election
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Our plan for the new Prime Minister
- Questions for Boris Johnson
- Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
- Rudd, Amber: Green light for Boris
- Sarah Wollaston joins Plaid Cymru
- Supporters come out, but no Kingmaker
- Ten new Constituencies now under offer
- The Leadership election falls asleep again
- The quiet leadership contest
- Top people are people too
- Where it all went wrong for – Change UK
- Winner is coming
Outside the Bubble
- 4IR: understanding and fear
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
- Ordinary extraordinary men
- Putin it like that, no
Parliament
- Accidental spies; useful idiots
- Aggressive timidity exploited
- Brecon and Radical Rethink
- Cromwell and the parliaments
- Depart, I say; and let us have done with you
- Gaius Cassius and Cingonius Varro
- Have I missed something…?
- He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself…
- Military coup in Westminster
- Questions for Boris Johnson
- Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
- Securing the exit endgame
- See how they run
- Theresa shoots for an open own-goal
- Treason, stupidity, recklessness or hypocrisy?
- Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
- Westminster in the exit endgame
Philosophy
- Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Caliban the wild man
- Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
- Cromwell and the parliaments
- Depart, I say; and let us have done with you
- Gaius Cassius and Cingonius Varro
- He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself…
- Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
- Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
- Military coup in Westminster
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind …2
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind …3 – nasty, brutish, and short
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning their Felicity and Misery
- On popular grievances
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Putin it like that, no
- Quarrel of a dying empire poisoning modernity
- The Curses of Caesarea
- The doctor and the silent usurpers
- The Leviathan
- The Noble Savage, Caliban, and Hobbes
- Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
Reason and science
- 4IR: understanding and fear
- Fifty years on, and the frontier is open
- Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
- Quarrel of a dying empire poisoning modernity
Reviews
- 4IR: understanding and fear
- Magical Scottish town appears briefly from the mist
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Rules for conservatives?
- Summer of Rockets – a personal review