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Britain’s puerile leadership

The quality of political leadership in Britain is puerile, ever since the Conservative Party voted David Cameron as its leader. The Tories had been in the political wilderness during Tony Blair's triple premiership.  They experimented with a few ineffectual leaders. William Hague was the first Tory leader who never became Prime Minister. Iain Duncan Smith …

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Protest and Reform

Protest and Reform are current political themes. These terms were commonly used in the 16th-century European Reformation and by the Protestantism associated with it. That Reform was a religious movement that continues to the present day, but modern protest and Reform are political movements, with secularism undergirding them.  Revolution can also be thrown into this …

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Build Back Better and what is behind it

When I first heard it, I thought 'Build Back Better' was terrible English. My opinion has not changed. It is a terrible slogan. However, it has been adopted by Joe Biden and Boris Johnson. Why? Michael Gove used it at the Scottish Tory Conference yesterday in Glasgow, opposing it to the SNP agenda, and he …

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