Treat fast, safe nuclear as a growth story, not a risk to be managed. France undercuts Europe on electricity prices because it made this bet fifty years ago. Korea now exports the reactors other countries can’t build themselves. Britain invented civil nuclear power. There’s no reason it should now be the country still afraid to build it.
His plan to stop the boats by sending the Royal Marines onto French beaches fell apart as soon as he had announced it.
It’s no secret that Ukraine’s future depends very much on the degree to which avowed allies are willing to help. So keeping track of opinions about the war helps recognise both positive and negative trends.
Today, a nuclear revolution such as we saw in France appears far away. Despite most findings of the Fingleton Nuclear Review being accepted by the government, politicians still do not seem to treat energy security with the urgency it requires.
Were Lord Nelson to see the current state of the Royal Navy, his shock would surely be shared by Vice Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, commander of the enemy fleet at Trafalgar.
Significant parts of the political debate, on left and right, are based on official statistics which are wrong. And the wrongness more often seems to be in one direction – towards the gloomy, the pessimistic and the negative.
The greater danger likely lies in unthinking adoration of the totems of whatever qualifies as “international law”. That tendency is obviously very strong in the Starmer government, starting with the man himself.
Starmer’s attacks on Brexit and its impact on the economy are as predictable as they are risible. If we want an honest conversation about growth, productivity, and our place in the world we must not let recycled myths be part of it
The Danes ration choice, the French ration equality, and the Swiss ration time. In the UK we refuse to ration all three – meaning we must instead ration graduate’s wages, because nobody will talk about what an alternative to tuition fees actually means.
Welfare should be a safety net, not a way of life. It should support people back into work, not write them off. We will vote against because, for all their self righteousness, Labour won’t see that ‘fairness’ cuts both ways.
White Western man infantilises both himself and others by his insistence that his imperialism is the root of all evil.
We have been a happy vassal of the US since Suez and it is a feat of mental unpleasantness to opt for anything else – only now that miserable slavery is on the table does the thought of accepting mental unpleasantness raise its head.
Though Trump would like to see the transatlantic alliance dead, it is too strong for any one leader to destroy. Better to ally ourselves with the transatlantic majority in Congress, to make any attempt to seize Greenland harder.
The Labour government made fiscal choices and is now seeing them unravel as global conditions become less favourable. To pretend it is someone else’s fault is like a sailor complaining about the sea. Nor is it, actually, anything at all to do with Liz Truss, which Labour would be wise to drop as an excuse.