Should the state treat violent political action as a special category of crime, or simply as ordinary criminality? A little-known paper from 1977 contains a fascinating history of Parliamentary dysfunction more relevant to today's climate than anyone might realise.
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.