by Patrick O’Flynn | Oct 3, 2022 | Insight
As Britain’s third female prime minister, Liz Truss has been able to view one of her predecessors up close but the other only through the lens of her teenage memory. She sat in Theresa May’s Cabinet throughout May’s disastrous Downing Street tenure and saw just...
by Patrick O’Flynn | Apr 19, 2022 | Insight
The rampant commercialisation of Christmas and its co-option long ago by non-believers as a pretext for partying, general excess and poor-taste television leaves Easter unchallenged as the key landmark in the year for Christians to reflect upon their faith....
by Patrick O’Flynn | Mar 21, 2022 | Insight
EVERY few years we get a reminder that the capitalist economic system is a good servant when it is properly regulated but a terrible master when it is allowed to run out of control. The contemptible conduct of P&O Ferries in sacking its entire UK workforce via a...
by Patrick O’Flynn | Feb 11, 2022 | Insight
Were there any justice, Sir John Major would have ducked out of public life 30 years ago and not been heard of since. For it was as long ago as September 16, 1992 ‑ the day dubbed “Black Wednesday” ‑ that his claim to any kind of political competence was shattered by...
by Patrick O’Flynn | Dec 2, 2021 | Insight
Labour’s Nye Bevan came up with a brutally effective method to deal with doctors who opposed the setting up of the NHS in 1948, famously declaring: “I stuffed their mouths with gold.” More than 70 years later, it seems that turning on the money tap is still...
