Archive - The Potemkin Village Idiot

Footnotes to myself

When Character was King, Peggy Noonan

10 hrs ago •

Retail politics

Paywalled postscript; stranded by the shift

Aug 15 •

Keir Starmer's Kali Yuga

The slow heat death of social democracy

Aug 8 •

Labour’s migration plan is a French surrender

Another suicide pilot scheme

Aug 6 •

Footnotes to myself

Across the River and Into the Trees, Hemingway

Aug 4 •

July 2025

My second time at the plate

Jul 30 •

Only NHS drones can defeat Britain’s Nimbys

This article was first published in UnHerd. Everything I publish elsewhere is shared here as a gift to the nation. But if you want the full picture…

Jul 28 •

The South Africanisation of Britain

The scaffolding of Britain’s state is buckling

Jul 25 •

Second time around

Jul 23 •

Footnotes to myself

Amexica, Ed Vuillamy

Jul 21 •

We don’t train, we drain

NHS can't rely on foreign workers forever

Jul 16 •

British Thought Leaders

Jul 16 •

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