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  The Great British Decline: Paying More for Less If there is one thing the British state has mastered in the 21st century, it is the art of...

  The Great London Pipe Dream: Why Centralization Always Costs More The British political cycle is a reliable, if dreary, metronome. Every f...

  The HMRC Tax Trap: When the Empire Plays Global Referee In the grand game of international tax, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has proven i...

  The Grand British Carousel: Brexit and the Art of Revolving Doors On June 23, 2016, the British public decided to leap off a perfectly fun...

  The Institutional Betrayal: When Safety Becomes a Sacrificial Lamb There is a profound, sickening irony in a state that constructs endless...

  The Silent Victims: When Ideology Trumped Children We like to believe that our modern institutions are built on the bedrock of protecting ...

  The "Tax and Spend" Stranglehold: When the Inner Sanctum Spills the Beans There is something undeniably cathartic—and perhaps da...

  The Chilling Transmission: A Former Diplomat's Testimony on the Prime Ministerial Tracking Scandal The British political establishment...

  The Crusade Against Your Laundry: Britain’s War on Heat It is a curious trait of modern governance that when the state runs out of grand v...

  The Steel Suicide Pact: Building Walls to Starve Yourself In the grand tradition of economic self-sabotage, the UK and the EU have decided...

  The Bureaucratic Black Hole: Where Common Sense Goes to Die In the grand tradition of government mismanagement, the UK’s asylum system sta...

  The Luxury of Incarceration: When Being a Criminal Beats Working for a Living If there is one thing modern government bureaucracy excels a...

  The Great Tax Scam: Why Working for a Living is for Losers In the grand theater of the British economy, there is a golden rule that no one...

  The Diploma Delusion: The Great Unmasking of Higher Education We have spent decades building a cathedral of higher education, only to disc...

  The Golden Cage of Asylum: Luxury at the Taxpayer’s Expense The irony of modern governance is that we have become spectacularly efficient ...

  The Great Administrative Self-Cannibalization: Why British Reform is Just a New Coat of Paint Applying Pournelle’s Iron Law to the current...

  The Great Welfare Abdication: Sweeping the Dust Under the Rug The British government has just performed a masterclass in bureaucratic cowa...

  The Citizenship Gold Rush: Locking the Door Behind You The British Home Office is currently performing a victory lap. By ruthlessly reject...

  The Great Shell Game: Hiding the Crisis in Plain Sight The government is currently busy back-patting itself for a job well done. According...

  The Great British Exodus: When the Future Chooses a New Zip Code The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reads less ...