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Oct 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
One of the things that is screwing up Britain is our mad habit of trying to promote everything via every policy. So the core purpose of any policy gets lost. Everything takes 4 times longer and costs twice as much as it would otherwise and never fulfils its main purpose anyway
You want to build a bridge? Is the main objective 'how can we build a good sturdy bridge at the best cost'? Lol, that's barely in the top 10 criteria. How can the bridge a) save the planet, b) achieve gender justice etc, c) tackle all racism ever etc etc are all higher priorities
I get that you want to ensure the bridge is built in a way that doesn't create major other problems. And maybe this stuff would be less mad if the economy was booming. But esp now, when the country is screwed, infrastructure crumbling, etc, can we cut the crap and do some shit
All this stuff creates worthless jobs for a load of penpushing consultants & lawyers and HR people etc. There's some unemployment that I'd welcome. Retrain them as engineers and get them to build the damn bridge.

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Sep 29
In this country, we've gone from the mentality of 'everything is permitted unless explicitly outlawed' to 'everything is outlawed unless explicitly permitted' and one net result of that is a deeply engrained culture of caution and disdain for showing initiative. It's depressing
If you look at younger people, their education, the culture they grew up in, has made them scared of ever doing or thinking anything outside the narrow tramlines of whatever is permitted in the stifling institutional contexts they are used to. A nation of cautious proceduralists
If you want people to meticulously follow pre-existing rules within a clear framework, then you're fine. You can find loads of those people. If you want people to regurgitate back spoon-fed lines, ditto. But they can't break out of the mental safety net of such contexts
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Sep 25
Church leaders should think v carefully here. Many worried about immigration are not 'far right'. They are in fact like the despised outcasts Christ supped with, making our bishops at risk of being the Pharisees who asked 'Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?'
No doubt there are genuine racists/far right agitators. But working and lower middle class people from the provinces are the big losers out of the last 40 years and are obviously looked on as 'low status' by urban liberals & establishment figures. Christianity is for them too
It's a huge error for the Church to (as it has in the past) be the uncritical cheerleaders for the a complacent establishment that largely ignores the mass of ordinary people. It's not unchristian to worry about rapid & destabilising social change.
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Jul 28
We're currently in a disastrous political doom-loop. A large % of western populations are very discontented, their grievances a mixture of the understandable & less so. The elite's major answer to this is not to address the reasonable grievances, but to censor (mis)information...
But the elite constantly conflates genuine misinformation with opinions they dislike. So the very act of advocating more censorship turbocharges existing mistrust of the state & media & makes people, some of whose discontents are v real, more susceptible to actual misinformation
In response, elites advocate more regulation, more censorship, and so distrust spirals further - and so on. The elite is partly right - there is conspiratorial claptrap & misinformation - but because everyone knows that they're not acting in good faith, no-one trusts them
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Jun 27
It's extraordinary to manage to be forced to u-turn by your own backbenchers on a major policy when you have a majority of 170 odd, and you had iron control of parliamentary selections so most MPs are pretty pliant. Although it's partly aloof management & poor leadership, it's...
...also a sign of a government with no real driving strategy. Many MPs clearly have no faith that Starmer & Reeves have any credible underlying idea of what they're trying to do. The government is a quivering jelly of reactive fiddling and Treasury-brained policy-by-default
MPs might be prepared to bite the bullet & stick by the government in the teeth of public obloquy if they thought it had an overarching logic that had a chance of coming up trumps by the next election. But I suspect most see that Starmer is stumbling through day-to-day (at best)
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Jun 18
As we tear down moral guardrail after moral guardrail, we are sleep-walking into a dystopian society where there will be no ethical limits on anything that gratifies the desires of the amoral & rich. Eugenics, commercial surrogacy, overt post-natal infanticide
The modish liberal orthodoxy that has come to stand in for morality provides no basis for objecting to these things, manmade horrors beyond comprehension. It's only the precarious hold of a few social conventions and stubborn taboos that prevents these things happening, for now
But already the morally deranged progressives will be seeking for the next way to transgress the moral law, the next enduring pocket of human sanctity and dignity to destroy. Unless we take a stand soon, there is no end to the horror. These people will never be satisfied
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Apr 19
The thing about Christianity, inconvenient and in many ways tricky as it has proved for me, is that it is actually true. There is no other explanation for the empty tomb and aftermath that isn't madly convoluted and/or that doesn't ring totally psychologically false
All of the 'we must return to Christianity to save civilization!' arguments, tho they may have elements of truth to them, are almost comically irrelevant. If Christ is risen, the fortunes of nations and interests of states seem like something of a secondary consideration
I must have read the passion narrative and Acts several hundred times now, and every time it seems to ring truer. It's both weirder in detail and more psychologically compelling in its account of how the relevant actors behaved than anything that could be fabricated or made up
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