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Faced with a divided party and disaffected voters, this month’s spending review is of critical importance to the government as it seeks to balance the books and plan for the future| www.thetimes.com
Rereading the novelist David Peace’s GB84, set during the Miners’ Strike, it recently struck me that when Peace wrote the novel, in 2004, he was writing from the middle of the “End of History” era. His portrayal of a country on edge, breaking apart under civil conflict, was a historicising one. Twenty years after the events it depicted, its jagged, paranoid tone was a literary construct, not a reflection of Peace’s lived reality under the New Labour consensus. Yet in today’s Brita...| UnHerd
Civil war is a strong likelihood in the West over the next five years. Policymakers, senior military leaders, and the public should understand why this is the case and what form the coming civil turmoil is likely to take. Building on the civil wars literature and the 'feral cities' concept, this paper spells that out: low grade 'dirty war' will metastasise into large scale internal conflict via 'system disruption' attacks aimed at vulnerable urban infrastructure. It also outlines strategies, ...| Military Strategy Magazine
Preference falsification and Britain's slide to chaos...| dominiccummings.substack.com
