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John Adams, a great US “founding father”, legal defender of “redcoats”, and the nation’s second President, knew that for a democratic nation to function the people must think of the greater good of the nation. Adams warned against a “tyranny of the majority” saying: “If a majority are capable of …
Read More »Our Politicians in Gatsby’s World
The other night, while concluding watching the latest cinema version of The Great Gatsby (which by the way is slightly, but not overwhelmingly, above average) with my fiance, I remembered why my favourite fiction novel was The Great Gatsby. The story makes you think. Fitzgerald’s novel is filled with imperfect people, …
Read More »Two Things to think about for the weekend and leading up to the Liebour conference next week.
Well, Labour’s party conference is next week. As always, they are promising the moon and have no plans to pay for any of it. One of their recent central platforms will be reintroducing the spare room subsidy, the current policy called the “bedroom tax” by left wingers. Besides this not …
Read More »Michael Gove is Spot On.
In today’s Telegraph there is a wonderful opinion piece by Michael Gove about the incompetency of the Labour opposition in contrast with the successes of the government. He makes a good & strong case & I believe he is spot on. Here are the excerpts I shared on my facebook page, my American audience …
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