The UK Covid strategy has been led by hesitancy and populism rather than an understanding of the long term effects of early action, creating space for the NHS to breathe. And now the ex-head of the Covid Strategy task force is asserting more nonsense suggesting that the mass vaccination programme should be abandoned in favour …
Category: Democracy
Conservative Decay
Trump, Bolsonaro and Johnson are undermining the political philosophy of conservatism. By seeking populism and a constituency of idiocy because 'public opinion' that follows the proportionality of a bell-shaped curve can match policy to mad conspiracy theories (philosophy for idiots) and manipulating people to capture votes with false promise, empty rhetoric and self-interest. Undermining conservatism …
US Election
Predictions made in July, how did we do? Predictions Biden will choose Warren or Klobuchar. WRONG: Biden picked Kamala Harris. Trump will go with Pence CORRECT Biden will win the popular vote by about 4 or 5 million CORRECT Biden will win the Electoral College with the usual razor edge calls in Florida but the Southern …
US Election Outcome Calculator
Predict the result with the Electoral College built in, courtesy of the FT. Our prediction based on - well we are guessing - is Trump 234, Biden 304. Assumptions are no Democrat to Republican losses, the states that Trump won with small margins in 2016 return to Democrat, solid red states stay with Trump except …
Devil and the Dark Blue Sea
The political choices faced by the UK at the last election: a socialist utopia that would cause taxes to increase and suppress innovation and progress while looking after those who were unable to look after themselves, or a slogan. The complex algorithms that the Left proposed were hundreds of pages of promises that were perceived …
Proportional Representation
For many, Labour was seen as the only viable opposition because of our First Past the Post anti-democratic voting system. It distorts voting decisions as the majority vote against instead of for and/or they feel so disenfranchised by the absolute meaninglessness of our democracy their vote is not cast. I do not feel that the …
Democracy can fail
Democracy is not a perfect method to create Governments, but when it is done right, it can prevent bad Governments from surviving. But as a human right, as a way to run things, democracy has a fatal flaw. Despite its raw power of being able to topple a government or president overnight, it is not …
Lack of infrastructure
Locking children in cages and separation of young children from their families is inhuman behaviour. And now, abrupt about-turns by Donald Trump does not signify that the President of the US would seriously contemplate discussing ideas and or listen to objections before enforcing sweeping Executive Orders that appear to be rapidly pushing the USA towards …
States of War
Why does war exist? As a philosophical question, we can explore all manner of motivations for warfare. Very few wars benefit anyone, but while it may be true that some make sense, at first, others clearly do not. Specifically, intimidation, tariffs and standover tactics appear more common measure in today's world where power and primacy …
The Fall of Great Britain
The Government is failing. There seem to be two types of Government: overactive or inactive. The UK Government is inactive, devoid of progress and it is not evolving a better world but one that has progressively been failing. The increase of violence in London, the increase of the homeless, the treatment of the victims of …