We Decide Who We Are
Eight billion pounds a year flows through the National Lottery Service. Only a fifth reaches good causes. Nearly a billion goes straight to the Treasury. The rest vanishes into prizes, costs and profit. Britain invented a way to tax hope without calling it taxation, and then gave the losers a halo.
An Invincible Military
Britain spent £21.8 billion on a proxy war with the world's gas superpower, with threadbare stockpiles, no energy plan, and a front line which barely moved. The political class chose Churchill costumes over strategy. The numbers are brutal and they do not care about speeches.
Unlimited Potential For All
Your grandparents did arithmetic and Latin. Your child cannot add up a shopping bill, but she can tell you why the supermarket is racist. This is not an accident. The swap was not voted on. It has been the default in English teacher training for a generation, and nobody told the parents.
Chokepoint Technologies
Britain did not run out of energy. It built a system with no margin and still runs in the "dash for gas" error. No storage, no surplus, no resilience. Generation, grid, and heating were split into silos and optimised to failure. Build for excess instead of balance, and the crisis ends.
An Invincible Military
Britain has no missile defence. Its nuclear warhead factory is seven years late. A special forces death squad was covered up for a decade. Its soldiers come home to mould. And in a NATO war game, the ammunition ran out on day eight. The Navy only has 15 ships. But we have 29 quangos.
An Invincible Military
When a man walks through the door with a gun, politics ends. Britain's coward class has forgotten this. While the world runs on hard power, our leaders hide behind legal briefs, procedural weasel words, and the fantasy of "soft power." This week they were re-introduced to reality.
Deep Understanding First
The English are not a theoretical people. They are a remembered people — shaped less by revolution than by accumulation, trusting experience over abstraction, continuity over rupture. To decode this species from Albion as an alien ambassador arriving in your UFO, here is where to begin.
An Invisible State
Every five years, the British public marches to polling stations believing they are choosing who runs the country. They are choosing who holds the title. Britain's permanent bureaucracy has written itself laws making it unfireable, unreformable, and untouchable by any democratic process.
Zero Tolerance Of Evil
Britain's homelessness machine runs on good intentions and broken economics. We're warehousing families in B&Bs, propping up a collapsing social housing sector with £100bn of debt, and calling enforcement restraint "compassion" while rough sleeping has risen by 164% since 2010.
An Invisible State
As David Lammy proposes abolishing jury trials for 75% of Crown Court cases, Britain's judicial recruitment crisis reveals a justice system on the brink of constitutional collapse—but scrapping ancient rights won't solve the rot within. Magna Carta is Britain, not an optional dirty napkin.