3 articles
• via Guido Fawkes
Labour's June defence review for war-fighting readiness lacks costings, exposing fiscal detachment that spans governments and weakens national security amid rising threats.
• via The Standard
The mathematics of modern Britain reveal a peculiar achievement: we've constructed a tax system where earning £99,999 leaves you better off than earning £149,000. This isn't a quirk or an oversight. It's the logical endpoint of a state apparatus that views productive citizens primarily as revenue sources to be squeezed, rather than assets to be cultivated.
• via The Independent
The Royal College of Physicians has delivered another damning assessment of British institutional failure, documenting how 99% of the UK population now breathes "toxic air" in what amounts to the largest preventable health crisis in modern Britain. Yet the response reveals everything about how this country's governing classes have learned to manage decline rather than prevent it.