the collapse in personal responsibility that inevitably follows the leeching of power and control away from the individual and the community into the hands of the elite and so therefore We should start by pushing political power down as far as possible, wherever possible. To do this, politicians will have to change their attitude -
Wednesday, 27th May 2009
The fruits of appeasement
8:28am
So now we can see once again the fruits of appeasement. North Korea has tested a second set of nuclear bombs and the west throws up its hands in horror. What did it expect? Once the Bush administration cravenly decided to give up on North Korea (following the similarly short-sighted approach taken by Bill Clinton), Kim Jong-il duly took the opportunity to press full steam ahead with his nuclear programme. Now the same ‘new realists’ who came to power at the tail-end of the Bush presidency and decided to ‘live with’ a North Korean bomb – just as they have apparently decided the US could ‘live with’ an Iranian bomb – are serving in the Obama administration, which of course has taken such imbecility to unprecedented depths. Obama has been abasing himself...Tuesday, 26th May 2009
Fine words butter no voters, David
5:00pm
I found much to agree with in David Cameron’s call for a new politics in the wake of the Great Parliamentary Meltdown -- not surprising, since I have been writing much the same thing over the past three weeks – which he set out in a speechtoday. He was right to say that the real problem is the general powerlessness felt by the public caused by far more than MPs’ corrupt expenses claims. He was right to point to
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Wednesday 27 May 2009
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