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Radar 6 February 2021

What is currently on my radar. What I am reading A Promised Land by Barak Obama – written as a detailed chronicle of his time in power rather than an entertaining mass market read. What podcast I am listening to…

Monopoly vs Freedom of Speech

John Naughton lends his weight to the debate on social media and freedom of speech in his Observer article on the furore over Trump and social media but let’s his own bias get in the way. John Naughton goes back…

Is populism so evil?

Traditional party politics in the UK are in transition with conservatism and populism dividing the votes. Both parties have learned the evils of liberalism when under Blair and Cameron.

Twitter: Wild West and Human Rights

Two recent events on Twitter both highlighted some important questions about Twitter as a public square and how we respond as a society to it. The first one is Trump being banned from Twitter for what Twitter called a “risk”…

Insurrection

Watching Vice President Mitch McConnell last night on BBC News eloquently portray how he could not stand by trump in his stubborn campaign to deny the result of the us election, instead calling it a fraud that had to be…

Brexit and the return of sovereignty

The Brexit deal is the end of the beginning by Robert Tombs on Unherd Boris has succeeded where all others failed by Matthew Goodwin on Unherd The outcome of the Brexit deal is being interpreted according to where your loyalties…

Maurice Glasman: how the fates abandoned Boris

Maurice Glasman in his article in Unherd “how the fates abandoned Boris” nails the blindspot Labour suffered from in the last election”: the Tories understood that the long-term disaffection of Labour’s heartland voters with globalisation and abandonment combined with the…