Governance

  • Churchill is our lasting inspiration against tyranny

    Sir Winston Churchill left a legacy of outright defiance against the most evil form of tyranny. His leadership of the free world against Hitler secured the victory for everyone. He was unwavering in his defeat not just of armies but of ideas also.

    If his generation is seen as racist, it’s by those without a fight to give. Churchill and his peers defeated a force heavy in modern understanding and a tirelessness in its pursuit of vainglory.

    Churchill is said to have possessed an obsessive attention to detail. He made sure all the terms used during the Second World War were free of error and that any ideas from Hitler’s ideology were rejected out of hand. He didn’t allow them to stay on record, in other words.

  • The UN knows the world is in chaos

    The UN knows the world itself is out of control. It seems to have little restraint in advising it at times of intense uncivil behaviour. It has a limitless belief in human kindness and political decency.

    The fact is this is naive. Many of its members have deeply set problems in their polities. These are disregarded to enable the movement of people in any direction. There are no routes like flight paths or lines for nautical journeys.

    The humour is that random voices proclaim an era of jubilee for hardship, but no plans for this are forthcoming. It’s an unrealistic dream to fulfil. It’s a marginal goal in even the best of times.