Announcement
Far too many have felt politically homeless for far too long. This political homelessness is reflected in the dire state of our media. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Tabloid red tops; in the pocket of the Tory NonDom Billionaires. The once impressive Telegraph, reduced to a kind of “Chairman Boris Pravda'', with intellectual powerhouses of Peter Oborne’s ilk sent packing. Meanwhile, former voices of the sensible centre-ground, like our BBC, now march to the tune of The Woke: unwilling to stand up to Radical Islam, and hear any Arguments on the Trans Issue but their own.
In the words of Monsieur Zola, facing down a similar cocktail of a populist press, and systematic dishonesty at the Top Table of Government.
J'accuse.
There are a few holdouts of intellectual journalism in Bonkers Britain (or “normal island”(!) as the young bloke at work calls it - brilliant); Iain Martin at The Reaction; The Byline Times, holding the government to fierce account; and of course, UnHerd, the New Athens of Dangerous Ideas to that august Jerusalem of First Things.
But this battle will not be won by The Few, but by The Many.
Less Churchill on those beaches, more what Jeremy Corbyn was SAYING in that election, before he lost the plot with Ken Livingstone’s dangerous rhetoric.
We, Britain’s best public intellectuals, science tech boffins, booze-stained hacks, and barmy artists locked up in some bonkers hip Bohemia like Camden Town, or Notting Hill, or the Stratford Olympic Legacy Zone, have decided to take A Stand.
We will publish two articles every week; with a Long Read for that lazy Sunday afternoon. We will hold the government AND Rupert Murdoch to an often acerbic level of accountability. We will provide a home for polemic of all stripes (hate speech, however, will face a ‘no truck’ policy from day one); and a spring-board for bold, radical Arguments which confront the future; a future defined by issues like The Climate Crisis and Brown’s Big Case for a Federal U.K.