To get to the essence of UKIP we should ignore its factions, policies and candidates and look at the people who vote for it.
The result of safety improvements is not only fewer disasters, but also weirder disasters.
Proper capitalism – i.e. the capitalism concerned with productive endeavour as opposed to land-based Ponzi schemes – is not to blame.
PC is underpinned by the ideology of the post-modern left which seeks to improve the lot of groups regarded as under-privileged by restricting the rights of those regarded as over-privileged.
When tabloids feature before-and-after photos that document the rapid ageing of politicians in office, we tend to put it down to the weight of responsibility. However, the heaviness of eyelids is also to blame.
The further you go down the income spectrum, the greater the decline in marriage and paternal involvement.
Any comprehensive attempt to measure the ways in which life has got better, would also have to account for the things that have got worse.
If we act at all it must be within a rigorous assessment our interests and our capabilities.
The Labour Party only has to look to Scotland to see what happens when the centre-left looks like part of the establishment.
Fundamentally, fairness is about the desire for a moral order.
In Britain, employment is up and growth is up, but output per hour worked has not followed suit.
Those who acknowledge our right to free speech, but who think we ought to shut-up anyway, have ways of making us shut-up.
Assuming that we don’t take the radical step of moving our capital, is it worth re-housing Parliament anywhere else than London?
The self-imposed constraint of tradition stands little chance before the turbo-charged power of rampant individualism. And yet, in respect to cars, there is hope for a third way.
Could it be that the receding tide of chauvinism is exposing male weaknesses that were always there?