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Woke Politics and the Crippling of the Centre-Left
Potholes Western liberal societies have fallen into an ideological hole in the road. We have been stuck in it for some time but have registered the fact only recently, because other problems have developed that are easier to measure. The pillars that underpin our high standards of living have been eroded to a point that…
Vaclav Havel’s Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World
In 1994, shortly after becoming President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel travelled to the USA and delivered an address in Philadelphia called “The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World”. The USSR had recently collapsed and a new form of capitalism was spreading its influence over the world, connecting disparate cultures via fractal conduits…
Prisoners of Progress
From Modern Elfland by G. K. Chesterton +++ Human technological and military advances are locked in a perpetual striving for improvement that can never end except by mutual agreement. It comes down to a problem of trust: can you rely on your neighbour not to continue their research and either outcompete you economically or threaten…
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Philip Bradford 