Money collapses, socialism rises. Socialism rises, society wobbles. Society wobbles, capitalism strolls back in wearing a hard hat and carrying a ledger. It is less a Theory than a recurring British pantomime — except nobody enjoys the interval and the popcorn costs £11.
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Image by Knelstrom Media. The world’s most peaceful battering ram clears its throat By Martin Foskett, Reporter PUBLISHED: UPDATED: Mark Rutte stood before the microphones and declared that NATO is “a defensive alliance. We will never attack anybody.” It was one of those polished modern political statements that hang in the air with remarkable confidence,
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UNITED KINGDOM, London. Nigel Farage said on Tuesday that he would resign as the Reform UK MP for Clacton and stand again in a by election, after using a speech to deny wrongdoing over a £5 million gift and wider questions about his finances.
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UNITED KINGDOM, London. The Government has opened a public consultation on a new media green paper, published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and updated on 23 June 2026, which sets out proposals on public service media, online news, video platforms and the future of television distribution.
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Ministers are fast tracking new powers to designate foreign state threat bodies, with Lords safeguards for humanitarian work and information handling.
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Civilisation, on closer inspection, has always been run by people who read quietly, doubted themselves often, and took far too long to clear their throats, while being shouted over by louder specimens who mistook volume for wisdom and enthusiasm for competence. William Butler Yeats spotted the problem over a century ago and summarised it with surgical efficiency: the thoughtful hesitate, the reckless roar, and history usually hands the megaphone to the wrong lot.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst never shut up. Read More »
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Every civilisation eventually discovers the same uncomfortable truth. Supermarkets are not farms. Packaging is not agriculture. Loyalty cards do not photosynthesise. Every meal, whether served on fine china beneath crystal chandeliers or eaten from a paper tray on a retail park bench, begins in a field. Somewhere, often out of sight and increasingly out of mind, somebody has spent months gambling against weather, disease, markets and government policy so somebody else can complain that carrots have become twenty pence more expensive.
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Every few months, a politician somewhere announces a fresh campaign against VPNs with the confidence of a man attempting to arrest fog. The language is always grand. Online safety. National security. Digital sovereignty. Protecting the public. Protecting children. Protecting democracy. The slogans arrive polished and gleaming. The practical reality arrives shortly afterwards, carrying a folding chair and a look of exhausted resignation.
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