It’s time to bring back Conscription
A Heated Debate
A fiery debate has broken out in the UK over whether some form of national service should be reintroduced to address concerns over Britain’s declining military power. A new report has found that British armed forces now have 50,000 fewer personnel than France, raising alarms that the UK can no longer defend its interests on two fronts simultaneously.
Channel Migrants Quietly Granted Right to Work
The Home Office has recently and quietly granted asylum seekers who crossed the English Channel in small boats the right to work in certain sectors struggling with acute staff shortages. This controversial policy decision is likely to have profound implications as the UK grapples with record numbers of migrant channel crossings.
Car rental giant Hertz recently took a $45 million loss after an attempt to go green by buying 20,000 electric vehicles backfired.
On 1st January this year, the final assault on private motorists began with the introduction of the zero emission vehicle mandate target. From the start of 2023, manufacturers must sell a certain percentage of electric vehicles.
The Shocking Reality of Excess Deaths in England
In a December 2022 report published in The Lancet, concerning statistics reveal that England is experiencing an unprecedented rise in excess deaths, especially among young and middle-aged adults. The silence around this data is deafening.
The UK government has turned the dial up a notch on electric vehicles (EVs) through newly enacted rules requiring automakers to steadily increase their share of zero emissions cars sold. This acceleration towards phasing out petrol and diesel vehicles raises important questions around impacts on consumer choice, infrastructure readiness, and finding the right balance between environmental needs and market realities.
Cleisthenes – The Athenian lawgiver Cleisthenes was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508 BC. Historians refer to him as “the father of Athenian democracy”. He was a member of the aristocratic Alcmaeonid clan and the… Read More »Cleisthenes – The Athenian lawgiver
Ancient Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories. Most of these regions were officially unified only once, for 13 years, under Alexander the Great’s empire from 336 to 323 BC. In Western history, the era of classical antiquity was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period.
Europe’s Economic Decline How the EU fell behind US – What’s Behind the EU’s Struggles? Europe once represented a bastion of economic strength and stability, with high standards of living, strong productivity growth, and a robust social safety net. However, in recent decades, the European economy has fallen behind countries like… Read More »Europe’s Economic Decline
Retiring Baby Boomers risk plunging Britain into crisis The UK’s Ageing Population Problem Britain has an increasingly ageing population, with Baby Boomers retiring en masse just as declining birth rates mean there are fewer young people to replace them in the workforce. This threatens to create economic turmoil in the… Read More »Retiring Baby Boomers risk plunging Britain into crisis
