https://unherd.com/2023/08/inside-tony-blair-inc/

#InsideTonyBlairInc by #TomMcTague of #Unherd

The former PM's new empire is growing...(Not good)

#TonyBLIAR

"One day in the late Twenties, during his second spell as Prime Minister of the greatest imperial power on the planet, Stanley Baldwin fell into conversation with a stranger on a train."

That's the start of the essay. Read on for the punchline.

https://unherd.com/2023/05/britain-needs-more-stanley-baldwins/

#StanleyBaldwin #ukpol
#UnHerd

"One day in the late Twenties, during his second spell as Prime Minister of the greatest imperial power on the planet, Stanley Baldwin fell into conversation with a stranger on a train."

That's the start of the essay. Read on for the punchline.

https://unherd.com/2023/05/britain-needs-more-stanley-baldwins/

#StanleyBaldwin
#UnHerd

"But in stripping Ariel of her goal — stay human by seducing the prince — the writers have effectively gutted the character: now, she wanders vacantly through every scene with neither purpose nor agency."

#LittleMermaid2023
#UnHerd

That was about the #HouseOfLords , but the other main element of the UK state requiring reform, according to the essay, is local government.

https://unherd.com/2023/05/britain-needs-a-napoleon/

#ukpol
#UnHerd

Jeffrey Sachs:
Who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?
#nordstream #unherd #jeffreysachs
https://evenemang.malmo.se/en/kategori/musik

"Whereas illiteracy is rightly viewed as a scourge that must be tackled, one can freely admit to being innumerate without suffering from any social embarrassment."

@yuanyi_z

How Rishi Sunak unleashed the anti-maths philistines - The Post
https://unherd.com/thepost/how-rishi-sunak-unleashed-the-anti-maths-philistines/

#innumeracy
#UnHerd

"[I]lliteracy is rightly viewed as a scourge that must be tackled, one can freely admit to being innumerate without suffering from any social embarrassment."

@yuanyi_z

How Rishi Sunak unleashed the anti-maths philistines - The Post
https://unherd.com/thepost/how-rishi-sunak-unleashed-the-anti-maths-philistines/

#innumeracy
#UnHerd

https://unherd.com/2022/11/how-britain-became-an-american-colony/

What do we think? Has social media made us so Americanised that we don't even notice? Am I the only person left who winces at "leverage" used as a verb with a short E?

Closer to home, does the fediverse feel more culturally diverse than birdsite? Is this as important as being free of Space Karen?

#unherd #Americanisation #leverage #51stState #fediverse #birdsite #SpaceKaren

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating.”

#SimoneWeil

Via Giles Fraser at #UnHerd

In breaking news of #TrinidadAndTobago , a recent article about the jihadist coup or 1900: https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-jihadists-of-the-caribbean/

#Trinidad
#UnHerd

That's from https://unherd.com/2022/04/america-has-captured-france/

I don't know if the article is correct about the decline of traditional French culture and the rising Americanisation of #France , but what a loss if it is true.

Via #MarginalRevolution

#UnHerd

Guerra alla "disinformazione": il terrore della #disinformazione, che ha oscurato la realtà negli ultimi cinquant'anni, è di per sé una delle campagne di #IngegneriaSociale più efficaci del nostro tempo.
Di Geoff #Shullenberger su #Unherd
https://unherd.com/2022/03/the-myth-of-online-misinformation/

"The Ukrainian army did not run away, it did not surrender, it did not abandon its weapons to walk home, and neither was it quickly outmanoeuvred by the much better-funded Russian army [...] Day after day, Kharkov and Kyiv not only held out but were not even attacked, except by a few missiles, more terrifying than destructive. That is when Putin’s timetable and entire war plan fell apart."

#EdwardLuttwak
#Ukraine #VladimirPutin
#UnHerd

Deleted. I had found an eye-catching quote illustrating a point I wanted to make, but I have no evidence for the specific claims in the quote.

My regrets.

#UnHerd

Praise for the grand lines of President Biden's foreign policy, now that's contrarian. But one should always take #EdwardLuttwak 's views seriously.

https://unherd.com/2021/09/joe-biden-was-right-all-along/

#uspol #Afghanistan #China
#unHerd

"One might think that the logical thing to do for such a genocide-committing government is to surrender collectively to face trial at The Hague, or at the very least to resign in disgrace and shame. Not so with Mr Trudeau, who obviously doesn’t think that a mere genocide should stop him from winning a third term in office."

The squalid world of Justin Trudeau - UnHerd
https://unherd.com/2021/09/the-squalid-world-of-justin-trudeau/?=frlh

#JustinTrudeau #canpol
#UnHerd

"The most corrupt nation state in Western Europe occupies only 120 acres of land and has fewer than 1,000 residents. But its capacity for initiating criminal behaviour, and the global consequences of the financial and sexual scandals in which it’s entangled, are hugely out of proportion to its size."

#DamianThompson

https://unherd.com/2021/08/the-corruption-of-the-vatican/

#VaticanCity #corruption
#PopeFrancis
#unHerd

"The narrative of police racism is exacerbated by party politics. A young black man is around ten times as likely to die in a car accident than from a police bullet, but only 10% of African-American Democrats and 20% white liberals get this question right"

"The impact of such warped perceptions cannot be overstated. But rather than trying to correct untruths, the American Left has leaned into these corrosive myths."

#EricKaufmann

https://unherd.com/2021/07/what-liberals-get-wrong-about-race/

#uspol #racism
#UnHerd

"The truth is that French obsession with the idea of decline is far from new. Jean-Jacques Rousseau asserts somewhere (or is it Voltaire? I’m too lazy to check; these authors are tedious to read. Anyway, it is one of the two), that sooner or later — “the thing is certain”: we will be enslaved by the Chinese."

https://unherd.com/2021/06/the-narcissistic-fall-of-france/

#polfr
#MichelHoullebecq
#UnHerd