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  • America is a rogue state

    The news that Venezuela is now in the crosshairs of a mighty American state is concerning.

    The fact is, America is a nation at war with itself. It’s reputed to not have a real border with Mexico because of constant trespassing. It’s suffered infiltration before via airports and it looks likely it’s happening again.

    The populace is desperate for defence, and protection, but its President is beset by legal interventions. They want to be safe, they want to be secure, they want to be protected.

    The thought of a war or a small scale conflict is outrageous under these state of affairs. The conditions in many American cities are dire. The President has to call off the rogue state, lock America down, and plan a path ahead.

  • No one tells us what to do, so what do we do?

    The UK has multiple microcosms of activity related to human behaviour and belief about it. We call it the Prison System, the Police, the Legal system, etc.

    These are the main ones we can bring up because they’re widely understood. They’re also legitimate and heavily regulated throughout the UK.

    Yet, it comes to politics and we need to understand one thing. It’s that no one is able to address the UK public. It’s actually not possible. It’s not even possible for a leader.

    It’s been researched and found to be an impossibility. This means that the sum total of what we hear is all we’re going to get. It won’t be pierced by the sound of an announcer.

    Even in times of extreme hostility, it’s been seen that voices only follow voices and don’t take new, or singular, routes. We even therefore have a duty in our communication, and this how we do it.

  • Our opinions need to be validated

    The trouble with democracy is that it brings it up everywhere. The views of some may be held by some elsewhere, but it isn’t necessarily indicative of where they are. This isn’t the right fit for politics in the UK, where it’s important to note who said it and where they live. It’s because much of what we feel about things is informed by how we’ve experienced it in the first place.

    The random conjecture of many national titles has ill-served us for far too long. The precious few conversations I’ve had at length with people about their real opinions are much more complex than we’re given credit for. It’s believed that some MP’s have helped keep up a knowledge of ourselves in spite of this.

    The lack of depth in reporting is a key feature in the decline of interest in most if not all of Journalism. It’s tough having to start out on your own to gauge not just facts but also an awareness of the things that matter. It doesn’t get into the halls of power as quickly as people think, and it isn’t until much later on that green shoots can be seen in the fields of people’s endeavours.

    The lack of care for the thoughts and sentiments of the population is not total, but it counts as a strange omission from our times. The reflection of trends and currents in popular media is a helpful counter-narrative to a stale silence. Yet it’s not enough to imbue our political culture with a sense of its own life.

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  • Exclusive: MI6 sideline new head

    In an exclusive for Conservative News Site, the incoming head of MI6 has already been sidelined by senior staff.

    It’s due to the results of serious background checks, and a review of her criminal past.

    It’s an embarrassment for the UK’s only acknowledged overseas Intelligence and Security unit.

    It’s not yet clear why an unsuitable candidate made it so close to such an important position.

  • Gov. approval low

    In the embers of its first year this government is in a struggle all by itself. A 23 June poll by YouGov shows an overwhelming 61% disapprove of its performance. It only has a 16% approval rating otherwise among those that don’t like it.

  • Gov. approval sluggish

    In a poll for YouGov, approval in the government shows only a slight improvement since the start of the year. It’s at 19% by 10 March, 2% higher than 6 January. Its disapproval is 59%, which shows a 3% improvement.

  • Investment in the UK (Finance Report)

  • Public services deserve a raise

    If you look at the Tower lifeboat station, along the river Thames, in London, it looks as though public services are in rude health.

    The RNLI have access to public funds – that being, private donations made by individuals who support them through their advertising, and their campaigning, and fundraising.

    It’s not a publicly funded service, in the sense of a national health service, or fire service, and it doesn’t get public funding from the Government.

    There it is, however – a public service for the good of those dying at sea, or stuck in trouble in a river, for example.

    There is reason to hope that privately funded – that is, charitably funded – enterprises can work for the good, for the long term.

    It’s possible, and it’s not only seen with the RNLI.

    There’s ample opportunity to see more privately schemed, resourced, and financed projects working up and down the country.

    There’s a matter to consider of whether it’s best run privately, or run that way and publicly funded. But, it’s a vitally needed service that’s there, at least.