Thank you - I think this is the best short analysis of the general trend that I have yet seen. I very much hope that a future Tory government does indeed get onto the front foot and undo the Blair/Starmer constitutional mischief.
"Lord Chancellor" rather than "Supreme Chancellor", I think. Bit Star Wars. I'm not quite clear how the House of Lords Act 1999 diminishes the sovereignty of Parliament?
"There is a worm in the apple of pluralist liberal democracy. The worm is the half a century and more of progressive radicalism in the Western academy that has taken root now, not just in the Civil Service, but in most graduate-entry professional walks of life. Electoral pluralism is no match against an academia-media complex powered and energised by a feedback loop between the overwhelmingly left-wing academy and the largely left-wing media.
Ambitious young minds of the future elite have been drawn - for three or more highly impressionable years - through a kind of intellectual sheep dip; especially so in the case of the social sciences and humanities.
Civil administrators tend to be overwhelmingly drawn from these social science and humanities backgrounds and only rarely from STEM backgrounds. The ideal of democratic pluralism has thus come to be more and more compromised by a politically mono-cultural permanent administrative class. Political commentary (including conservative commentary), preoccupied as it always is with the gladiatorial drama, has long shied away from confronting this reality; of “a system (Franklin again) that churns out a hostile graduate workforce from which the civil service is recruited”...."
Thank you - I think this is the best short analysis of the general trend that I have yet seen. I very much hope that a future Tory government does indeed get onto the front foot and undo the Blair/Starmer constitutional mischief.
"Lord Chancellor" rather than "Supreme Chancellor", I think. Bit Star Wars. I'm not quite clear how the House of Lords Act 1999 diminishes the sovereignty of Parliament?
I normally enjoy scanning the extracts from various writers. But this is very poor quality stuff.
In what ways is this 'poor quality stuff'? Please be specific.
"Any prescription must follow a diagnosis" Well here's a diagnosis: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/carry-on-governing
"There is a worm in the apple of pluralist liberal democracy. The worm is the half a century and more of progressive radicalism in the Western academy that has taken root now, not just in the Civil Service, but in most graduate-entry professional walks of life. Electoral pluralism is no match against an academia-media complex powered and energised by a feedback loop between the overwhelmingly left-wing academy and the largely left-wing media.
Ambitious young minds of the future elite have been drawn - for three or more highly impressionable years - through a kind of intellectual sheep dip; especially so in the case of the social sciences and humanities.
Civil administrators tend to be overwhelmingly drawn from these social science and humanities backgrounds and only rarely from STEM backgrounds. The ideal of democratic pluralism has thus come to be more and more compromised by a politically mono-cultural permanent administrative class. Political commentary (including conservative commentary), preoccupied as it always is with the gladiatorial drama, has long shied away from confronting this reality; of “a system (Franklin again) that churns out a hostile graduate workforce from which the civil service is recruited”...."
I have no prescription.