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Posted on 5th January, 2026
The future of Scotland: What can OFFORD do next?
The future of Scotland: What can OFFORD do next? [published on THINK SCOTLAND in January 2026] As Reform’s electoral prospects improve, so do those of the SNP. Dissatisfaction with Labour …
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Posted on 5th January, 2026
SCOTLAND’S ALTERNATIVE: REFORM & REBOOT
[published on THINK SCOTLAND in December 2025] Now that the Labour government has shown itself as disastrous as the Tories and equally incapable of getting to grips with …
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Posted on 22nd October, 2025
WHY BE GOOD : The origins of altruism and why it matters
In December 2024 Matt Ridley, author of Origins of Virtue, introduced this topic at an Athenaeum Club salon. I then followed on with the words below, which expressed the ideas …
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Posted on 28th September, 2025
Incomers seeking to take over, a struggle to keep the nation together and competing ideologies: it’s an old story.
Bernard Cornwell’s political landscape of 10th century Britain is depressing, except that we know things turned out well. In his WARRIOR CHRONICLES, Alfred the Great and his heirs want …
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Posted on 28th September, 2025
BRITAIN HAS AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM CHINA’S RECOVERY?
My answer to a request to talk about the 2024 book WHO ARE WE, AND HOW WILL WE SURVIVE IN THE AGE OF ASIA? to the Society for Anglo Chinese …
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Posted on 28th September, 2025
WILD SWANS and its author
A speech at the Foundation for the History of Totalitarianism Sixth Form Essay Competition prizegiving, 2024. The subject of the essay that year was WILD SWANS by Jung Chang [Zhang …
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