Building two underwater tunnels linking Northern Ireland to Scotland, then Gibraltar to Morocco, would give England strategic control of the trade across the Britannic Isles, Europe, and Africa. All for the annual price of a month's NHS spending. Whoever controls global trade commands world affairs.
Between 1938 and 1940, Britain rescued 10,000 mostly Jewish children from Nazi Europe—but not their parents. Behind the celebrated humanitarian mission lay eugenic selection criteria, traumatic separations, and reunions broken beyond repair. The Kindertransport saved lives at a profound cost.
The highly-online ADHD video game porn addicts of Britain are happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and embrace political violence to demand what they want, regardless of the consequences to the country. Don't expect any adult voter to take you seriously if your tantrums are your manifesto.
Britain took 400 years to build a charity sector focused on genuine need and rooted in local community. Tony Blair dismantled it in five years by quietly defining what it meant, and replaced it with something unrecognisable: a politicised US-style NGO fundraising network.
Batteries work brilliantly for cars. For 44-tonne lorries crossing Britain, aircraft flying to Edinburgh, and ships reaching Rotterdam, batteries fail catastrophically. Hydrogen succeeds where electricity stumbles—if the state will stop suffocating anyone wanting to build it with over-regulation.