Scottish Unionist politician and Conservative thinker wrote in 1923, that to make democracy stable, the government needed to promote a property owing democracy, to meet the rise of socialism with constructive conservatism. Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy policy was one of the defining policies of her long tenure in Downing Street from 1979-90, aimed at…
Daniel Lavelle’s Down and Out, reveals his own experiences as well as those of witty and complex, hopeful individuals he has encountered who have been shunned or forgotten by the state that is supposed to provide for them- in order to shine a powerful light on this dire situation. Daniel Lavelle, a freelance feature writer,…
An investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II and how the world allowed them to get away with it. When Porsche makes its planned public debut later this year, the descendants of the sports car manufacturer’s eponymous founder an SS…
What happens when there is a recession and an impeding cost of living crisis amid the Ukraine war, the wealthy buyers sought to take shield themselves from economic turmoil by investing in traditional bricks and mortar in Chelsea, Belgravia, Kensington, St John’s Wood, Mayfair, and Knightsbridge, instead of investment in equities or bonds. The sellers…
Britain voted to leave the EU, in 2016, according to a YouGov poll last month 54 per cent of UK adults think Brexit has gone badly, and only 16 per cent think it is going well. David McRaney, a science journalist, self-delusion expert, psychology nerd, and one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, used…
A journey tracing the American mall from its 1950s heyday to its faltering present. Brought up in a hothouse underground bunker complex for kids with telekinetic powers, Eleven buzzes the neon pastel Starcourt mall with her new friend Max, who inducts her into the execution of US consumerism. The mall in which it was filmed,…
Disney CEO Bob Chapek has been one of the most vocal entertainment industry chiefs about the possibilities of Metaverse as a part of the canvas for creatives, which first emerged as a concept in the imagination of science fiction writers. Although everybody seems to be talking about Metaverse, no one can agree on what the…
New Yorker reporter Ken Auletta while reporting a profile of Harvey Weinstein in 2002, received a disturbing tip: the Oscar-winning producer had sexually assaulted a young employee four years earlier at the Venice Film Festival. Although Auletta had heard rumors that Weinstein sexually abused women, he chose to honour non-disclosure agreements that protected Weinstein for…
Cultural historian, Hannah Rose Woods explores how the golden ages have haunted Britain since medieval times including the nostalgic 2012 Olympic summer when the UK seemed confident to its past imperial, European identity, and London laid claim to the title of the world’s greatest capital city, with its progressive, outward-looking mayor Boris Johnson. Danny Boyle’s…
South Asia was where for decades the “Great Game” in geopolitical rivalry of the two greatest modern empires- Britain and Russia- had dominated international relations. With the advent of Communism in Russia and growing nationalism and pan-Islamism in Afghanistan, Persia, and India, Britain’s imperial standing was under threat. Faced with these problems, some in the…