Listened to your piece a week late but, anyway, all good stuff so please do more. Meantime, a couple of interesting historical touchstones of interest in these troubled times. One is the interesting, if obviously incomplete, comparison between Woodrow Wilson’s approach to Germany, as the WW1 aggressor, at the end of that conflict & Trump…
Listened to your piece a week late but, anyway, all good stuff so please do more. Meantime, a couple of interesting historical touchstones of interest in these troubled times. One is the interesting, if obviously incomplete, comparison between Woodrow Wilson’s approach to Germany, as the WW1 aggressor, at the end of that conflict & Trump’s indulgence of Putin, now. The other is the relationship between Gladstone’s extraordinary popularity as ‘the People’s William’ after his 1861 & 1862 budgets with their focus on ‘good housekeeping’ & ‘balancing the books’, & the existential need for the UK to realise the need to live within our means, starting with abandonment of Net Zero; slashing welfare & the size of the State; & a reversal of Labour’s’ war on wealth. Can we wait four years on these fronts & where is the opposition front bench in rebuilding the Conservative base from which millions have defected?
Listened to your piece a week late but, anyway, all good stuff so please do more. Meantime, a couple of interesting historical touchstones of interest in these troubled times. One is the interesting, if obviously incomplete, comparison between Woodrow Wilson’s approach to Germany, as the WW1 aggressor, at the end of that conflict & Trump’s indulgence of Putin, now. The other is the relationship between Gladstone’s extraordinary popularity as ‘the People’s William’ after his 1861 & 1862 budgets with their focus on ‘good housekeeping’ & ‘balancing the books’, & the existential need for the UK to realise the need to live within our means, starting with abandonment of Net Zero; slashing welfare & the size of the State; & a reversal of Labour’s’ war on wealth. Can we wait four years on these fronts & where is the opposition front bench in rebuilding the Conservative base from which millions have defected?