News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
What happened in Britain during the years 2018-24 wasn’t the philosophical defeat of 'Toryism'. It was a Battle Royal with the Blob that the British Right fought and lost, decisively, says J. Sorel.
In his latest deep dive into Starmerism for the Daily Sceptic, J Sorel discovers a bland, deep state functionary tasked with destroying parliamentary sovereignty so nothing like Brexit can ever happen again.
A new book by the head of an Oxford College wants unruly politicians brought to heel by lawyers and officials. But we should not throw away the sovereignty of parliament so lightly, says J Sorel.
According to J Sorel, the British Army is increasingly being treated like a tool for enforcing international law, rather than an instrument of the British people.
For Rishi Sunak to rail against 'sick-note Britain' is galling, given that as Chancellor he was responsible for paying workers £350 billion to stay at home and not work. Has he no self-awareness? asks J Sorel.
NHS founder Aneurin Bevan was a demagogue typical of the period, says J. Sorel in his review of Nye at the National Theatre. "Bevan, an early ally of Oswald Mosley, really could’ve ended up in either camp."
George Galloway and Lee Anderson are exactly what Westminster has been claiming to want and need for the past 15 years. And yet both have now been made political outlaws for patently obscure reasons, says J. Sorel.
The new Olivia Coleman film Wicked Little Letters pushes the tired genre of cosy English fiction, in which the loony locals need to be saved by a Theresa May-style manager, over the edge of absurdity, says J Sorel.
Keir Starmer's coming revolution is more radical than his opponents realise, says J Sorel. His vision is to codify Blair's Britain and place it beyond the reach of politicians in the hands of bureaucrats and judges.
The World Economic Forum likes to present itself as forward thinking and leading humanity into a bright, progressive future. But in truth the Davos ideology is fundamentally atavistic and anti-modern, says J Sorel.
In the Britain of the 2020s, politicians have the habit of abruptly disappearing, the victim of one or other parliamentary standards body. These shadowy pseudo-courts undermine our sovereign parliament, says J. Sorel.
The National Theatre bookshop epitomises the BBC-ification of 'Culture' into a Public Sphere melange. A new play, The Motive and the Cue, avoids this trap, but still ultimately fails, says J Sorel.
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