Exposing corruption, lies, incompetence, totalitarianism and all efforts to hoodwink, dupe, disenfranchise, enslave or kill the people. Proposing solutions to the infiltration or hijack of government by psychopaths and other criminals and more benign methods of administering human affairs.
MICHAEL RAINSBOROUGH When I published my previous essay in the Daily Sceptic on the rape-gang scandal, I attempted to describe what a serious integrity mechanism would look like in a state that wished to root out corruption rather than […]
A Surge-and-Collapse Trap: How Restore Britain Threatens Reform UK Under First-Past-The-Post THE RATIONALS In the grand theatre of British politics, where egos swell like overripe plums and ambitions crash like ill-timed punchlines, one might have […]
Child puberty blocker trial paused after watchdog concerns Scheme open to those as young as eight faces growing backlash LAURA DONNELLY A trial of puberty blockers for children will be paused following concerns from the healthcare regulator. […]
London mayor Sadiq Khan faces backlash after BBC investigation exposes scope of grooming gangs operating in the city The London mayor previously said there was “no indication” of the type of grooming gangs seen in […]
A turning point for Reform? PETE NORTH Behind the news of Farage appointing his shadow cabinet, we learn that James Orr is the party’s new policy director. This is potentially a game changer for Reform. […]
DR DAVID MCGROGAN . In an effort to head off my midriff’s desperate project to transform itself into a gigantic balloon, I have for the past several years been walking to and from my office […]
STEVE DOUGHTY IT MUST have seemed so simple to Sir Keir. Decolonise the Chagos Islands! Demonstrate the importance of international law and fly the new Labour Government’s human rights flag in the most unmistakable way. […]
The jaw-dropping prescience of C S Lewis’ science fiction ALEX KLAUSHOFER English literature is remarkably rich in dystopian fiction. It’s so deeply embedded in our culture you might think it would give us immunity against […]
Death by lawyers How excessive legalism can ruin a political system DANIEL ELOFF Ninety-nine per cent of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name. This is particularly true of those who end up […]
Billions spent. Livelihoods destroyed. Energy systems dismantled. All built on simulations of a chaotic system we cannot experimentally test. When did probabilistic inference become grounds for civilisational restructuring? Net Zero is an unfalsifiable fools gold […]