By Ewen Stewart – 5 minute read HER LATE MAJESTY the Queen, even in death, astonishes us. While I suspect many predicted large crowds, in an age of alleged rationality, globalism and woke conformity to the ‘latest thing’ – who would have thought that literally hundreds of thousands of people, young and old, would queue for 12 [...]
WHILE THE Conservative Party indulges itself with a mammoth election bore lasting an extraordinary eight weeks – a process that any sane organisation could have arranged over perhaps three weeks in this digital age – Britain faces its greatest crisis, I would argue, since the Second World War. The crisis is not just energy and [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read IT USED TO BE that governments understood that economic prosperity was hard won and a result of nurturing the private sector, encouraging enterprise and spending and taxing prudently. They understood that some deficit financing (spending a bit more than the tax receipts raised) might be appropriate occasionally but broadly [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 5 minute read MUCH has been written about the symbolism of the fall of Kabul. The perception seems to be growing that a mediaeval army has overcome American power (and by association that of the West generally) and shown it has no clothes. China and others will thus conclude the age of [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 5 minute read WAS PRESIDENT CLINTON right? He thought by enabling China to join the World Trade Organisation in 1999 they would cease their authoritarian ways and become more like us. By us he seemed to imply his version of ‘liberal democracy.’ 20-odd years later that confident prediction looks rather mistaken. At one level Clinton might [...]
