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Is this why Britain is failing?

I work for a company in England that has offices in different countries, including the US. It is a media company. I suspect it’s a fairly typical medium-sized corporation. In this post I will run down some of the things it has done in 2024 – though I could have gone further back (things started changing around 2018, with HR becoming ‘People & Culture’ and then got turbo-charged from 2020 onwards). I’m not saying that all of these things are bad things. Some are quite nice. They are not all ‘woke’. But many are. And taken together they suggest that many British companies in 2024 are perhaps not as focused on their core product as they might be. Valentine’s Day treasure hunt On 14 February, objects were hidden around the office for employees to seek out. First prize was a M&S voucher and there was a gift for all entrants. A decade or so ago you used to be able to secretly send a saucy message to an object of your affection, but this has long since ceased. Red Nose Day As
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Let's pretend

We live in pretend times. Nearly everything is fake. Fake news is more common than real news. Our current reality makes The Truman Show look real in comparison. The political and media class and most of our institutions engage in a 24/7 campaign of subterfuge, deceit and outright lies about the past, the present and the future. They pretend many things. For example, they pretend that the importation of millions of people from foreign cultures hasn’t had an effect on crime, terror, division and unhappiness. In fact, they claim the very opposite, that immigration has enriched us and ‘diversity is strength’. They pretend that Islam isn’t a civilisational threat to Britain and the West. When confronted with the murder of one of their kind by an Islamist, MPs instead debated the perils of social media. Labour MP Jess Phillips pretended that the reason the 2024 election was ‘the worst I have ever stood in’ was because of the behaviour of men. And not Islamists, which was the case. With ev
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12 reasons why I don't believe there's a climate emergency

I’m not a scientist. But I have reasons why I don’t fully trust the ‘climate emergency’ narrative. Here they are: 1 Looking back through history, there have always been doomsday prophets, folk who say the world is coming to an end. Are modern-day activists not just the current version of this? 2 I look at some of the facts – CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere; humans are responsible for just 3% of CO2; Britain is responsible for just 1% of the world’s CO2 output – and I think ‘ really ’? Will us de-carbonising really make a difference to the Earth’s climate? 3 I have listened to some top scientists who say CO2 does not drive global warming; that CO2 in the atmosphere is a good/vital thing; that many other things, like the sun and the clouds and the oceans, are more responsible for the Earth’s temperature. 4 I note that most of the loudest climate activists are socialists and on the Left. Are they not just using this movement to push their dreams of a deindustrialised socialist utopia? And
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