Transport Policy: The Network That Works Brilliantly in London and Needs Improvement Elsewhere, Which Is Roughly the Problem | Rail Privatisation, HS2, Bus Deregulation, Active Travel, Electric Vehicles, and the Persistent Challenge of Connecting the Country That Isn’t the Capital
Referendums, Direct Democracy, and the Question of Whether Britain Should Have More of Both or Considerably Less | Brexit, Scottish Independence, AV, the Good Friday Agreement, Devolution, and the Constitutional Consequences of Asking the Public to Settle Questions That Parliament Cannot
Metropolitan Police Announce New Crime Fighting Strategy: Declaring “Crime is Now Illegal” | Forces Confident That Making Something Illegal Will Prevent It From Happening
National Conservatism: Edmund Burke At Dinner | Cathedral, Family, Pew, Customs Union Of The Spirit
NHS Introduces Innovative 14-Year Waiting List To Help Britons Practice Patience LONDON — The National Health Service unveiled an ambitious new waiting times framework this week, confirming that patients referred for certain specialist consultations may now expect to be seen “within the next decade or so, depending on resource availability and whether the relevant department has been accidentally reorganised out of existence.” Health officials called the system “innovative,” “patient-centred,” and…
Identity-Based Progressivism: Check The Seating Plan | Positionality Statement First, Land Acknowledgement Second
British Parliament Introduces New “Efficiency Measure”: Session Held Entirely in Interpretive Dance | Lawmakers Communicate Policy Through Movement; Nobody Understands Anything
The Magna Carta Was a Ransom Note: A History of British Government From 1215 to Last Tuesday | Eight Centuries of Parliamentary Democracy, Three Civil Wars, and One Ongoing Argument About Europe
London Community Land Trust Now Quietly Building the Affordable City | Residents take housing into their own hands against impossible prices
East London Bus Strike Forces City to Confront Radical Idea: Drivers Are Human 🚍☕ Five Observations Before the Bus Arrives (Or Doesn’t) Buses in East London are no longer late — they are “reflecting” on their purpose in a rapidly changing transport ecosystem. “Near misses” has quietly become Britain’s most comforting phrase for what other countries might call “chaos with wheels.” Drivers are reportedly eating lunch beside traffic cones, which…
The Honours System: Britain’s Official Mechanism for Rewarding People Who Already Have Everything | CBEs, OBEs, Peerages, the Appointments Commission, Donor Peerages, and Why No Prime Minister Has Yet Agreed That the System Needs Reform
Newham Council Accidentally Solves Housing Crisis By Evicting People Until There Are No Housing Applicants Left Officials Celebrate Record Drop In Waiting List After Discovering Applicants Without Homes Are Harder To Count NEWHAM, LONDON — Newham Council is facing fresh scrutiny after the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found that a single mother was evicted following a bureaucratic comedy of errors in which the council allegedly failed to set up her rent…
Pure Anarcho-Capitalism: Replace Statutes With Contracts | Government As Polite Mafia, Cure As Encryption
UK Border Force Announces New Immigration Policy: Asking Immigrants to “Describe Why They’re Nice” | Government Confident Personal Charm Will Adequately Replace Background Checks
National Liberalism: Liberty With A Flag In The Corner | Free Markets, Friendly Tariffs, A Small Brass Band
Marxist-Bolshevik Revolutionary: 1917 Catches The 23 Bus | Field Guide To The Last True Believer In The Vanguard
Protectionist Nationalism: A Tall Tariff With Feeling | Make Things, Read About It Later, Watch Steel Arrive
The Water Industry: A Privatisation Producing Dividends, Debt, and Sewage in That Order | Ofwat, Thames Water, Southern Water, Shareholder Returns, Sewage Discharges, Regulatory Failure, and the Infrastructure That Was Sold Off and Not Maintained
The Crown: Decorative, Expensive, Surprisingly Durable | A Constitutional Monarch’s Guide to Reigning Without Actually Doing Anything, Which Is Harder Than It Looks
Soft Socialist Liberalism: Reads The Beveridge Index | Socialist In Brackets, Crosland On Sundays
The Autumn Statement, Spring Budget, and Spending Review: Britain’s Annual Ritual of Fiscal Theatre | Red Boxes, OBR Forecasts, Fiscal Drag, Stealth Taxes, Political Giveaways, and the Statement That Is Always More Complicated Than the Headline Number Suggests
Hard Nationalism: Flag, Slogan, Podcast | The Country In Capital Letters, On A Banner
Civilization Survives Another Week Through Combination Of Luck, Caffeine, And Administrative Error LONDON (PRAT.UK DATELINE) — Civilisation has successfully completed another seven-day operational cycle, emerging largely intact from a week that included three near-misses in international diplomacy, two significant institutional failures that were resolved not through intervention but through the malfunction of the system that would have made them worse, and at least one global crisis that did not escalate primarily…
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 1721-2025 — Every First Lord of the Treasury Annotated, Assessed, and Occasionally Pitied | From Walpole to Starmer: 57 Prime Ministers, Their Parties, Their Tenures, Their Defining Moments, and What History Has Made of Them Since They Left
Metropolitan Police Announce New Crime Prevention Strategy: Stop Investigating Crime Entirely | Department Confident That Ceasing Crime Investigation Will Reduce Crime Rates
British Social Services Announces New Child Protection Strategy: Children In Crisis Will “Resolve Their Own Issues” | Agency Confident That Shifting Responsibility to Children Improves Outcomes
The Digital State: E-Government, Data, Online Services, and the Question of Whether Britain’s Public Sector Is Ready for the Twenty-First Century | GDS, Universal Credit IT, NHS Digital, Cyber Security, Digital Identity, and the Persistent Gap Between Government Technology Ambition and Government Technology Delivery
The Nolan Principles: Seven Rules for Public Life That Public Life Has Been Enthusiastically Ignoring | Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership — The Standards Nobody Enforces and Everyone Invokes
The British Empire: What It Was, What It Did, What It Left Behind, and Why the Conversation Remains Unfinished | The Empire’s Scale, Its Economic Logic, Its Violence, Decolonisation, the Statues Debate, and the British History Still Being Negotiated
Arguments for Abolishing the House of Lords: Why Some Constitutionalists Think the Answer Is Not Reform but Removal | Unicameralism, New Zealand’s Abolition, Sweden’s Example, the Case Against Any Second Chamber, and the British Constitutional Reform That Would Be Most Radical and May Be Most Coherent
