Sunday Thoughts: Scottish Stasi, chronicling 14 years of the Conservatives, the contempt of behavioural
Hello class mates.
My last short, sharp post until I’m back from the Camino. In the meantime, here are some things I was reading before I set off. Check out some popular clips of the podcast below and catch you all on the other side for more Thinking Class.
Links of the week
Scotland’s pound shop Stasi | The Spectator
Europe must tighten its borders to combat the Islamist threat | The Spectator
Our economic model is bust. Being a services superpower is not enough (telegraph.co.uk)
AOC's Green New Deal proposal will hurt the working class - UnHerd
What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? | The New Yorker
The bloodbath affair - New Statesman
Podcast
This week I spoke with Elisabeth Braw, author of Goodbye Globalisation: The Return Of A Divided World. We spoke about the evidence for her book’s thesis, as well as the unintended consequences of ESG weakening western countries’ defence.
Here are some clips from the show:
From the archives
Episode 18 with Lionel Shriver on why she left Britain continues to prove popular:
Episode 20 with
Episode 14 with one of Substack’s favourite sons,
continues to bring in the views. It’s a good’un.Until next time class mates.