News Round-Up
18 May 2024
by Toby Young
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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.
In his isolationism, his dull, vague anti-Englishness and his peevish solemnity, Mark Drakeford was Carolean Britain’s modal statesman, says J Sorel.
Stratford used to be a commercially successful manufacturing centre. Now, it tries to get by on tourism, retail therapy, sport, sport science, postgraduate education and leisure. Is this Britain's future, asks J Sorel?
J Sorel reviews The Right to Rule and The Plot for the Daily Sceptic and is unconvinced that Britain is ruled by schemers and intriguers. They're no match for the courts, the Civil Service and the Ministerial Code.
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