The taunting of the seals

The seals are barking mad, or at least barking.

After the resignation from the Conservative party caucus by Brent Rathgeber, in protest of the command and control by staff “half my age” in the prime minister’s office, loyalists in caucus assured everyone that there is plenty of independence and autonomy in the Conservative caucus. It’s the kind of thing one might expect an MP to say if he was in the habit of substituting PMO talking points for his own thinking. Continue reading

Marking 60 years of British decline

It’s not easy being British. The country has lost its way. And should you be on the streets, you don’t want to lose your way, lest you encounter the roving bands of intoxicated thugs that spill out on the streets as a regular part of social life. Britain has embraced the machinery of the totalitarian state more than any other democracy, with the entire population under general video surveillance on the streets and squares. The theory was that Britons who had forgotten how to behave might behoove themselves to do so if the nanny state adopted the tactics of the police state. Continue reading