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2 weeks ago | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Sameer Hinduja
It’s no good. As we all know perfectly well from childhood, a house built on sand cannot stand. Yet the economic models being currently paraded – and followed — on both sides of the Atlantic as the bases for action, are clogged to the brim with the dirtiest of sand, and will, with absolute certainty, fall before very long. The American one has started to crumble already.
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1 month ago | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud
President Donald Trump believes he has all the cards in the Ukraine issue. Is he right? Answer: No. Here are some reasons why. The first is that he, and many of his associates, as well as many others round the world of comment, are living in a time warp and a technology warp. They are still in a 20th century world, before the full dawn of the digital age, in which might was mostly right.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud
Member ratings This article has not been rated yet. Be the first person to rate this article. That the whole world is now in an extremely dangerous and precarious phase is surely beyond argument. On that at least there is broad agreement.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Ali M. Mahmoud
Member ratings This article has not been rated yet. Be the first person to rate this article. The battered Conservatives are looking not only for a new leader, but for new areas on which to focus and new directions in which to move. Contrary to much comment, it is not a question of Left, Right or centre. It is a question of foreseeing, or failing to see, where the common ground ahead lies. The late Sir Keith Joseph was fond of talking about the new common ground in politics.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Ali M. Mahmoud |Sameer Hinduja
Member ratings Well argued: 100% Interesting points: 100% Agree with arguments: 75% 1 rating - view all Practitioners of the dismal science (aka economics) are fond of asserting that Britain is caught in a doom loop. That is to say, any measures taken to halt decline and lift our prosperity in one part of the loop may, so it is maintained, relieve temporary pain but make things worse beyond that and elsewhere in the processes of production and national consumption.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Sameer Hinduja
“There is no better time to take stock – and act – than in the aftermath of a crisis.” Mike Bloomberg There can be few political bodies round the world right now more in need of taking stock, and then acting, after a major crisis, than the once great Conservative Party, now dashed to pieces by the enormous swing to Labour. But actions should be in the right order.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Ali M. Mahmoud
As Sir Keir Starmer takes office, ushering in a new era in politics, he should bear in mind one of the most obvious and almost universal features of today’s political landscape. While the State has all the spending obligations, ambitions and needs, in ever mounting volume, the private sector has the money. Nothing very new about that. This was the economist J.K. Galbraith’s mantra – “private affluence and public squalor” — in 1958.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud
The State is under assault. So comes the cry from all political viewpoints. They range from those who want to see a much firmer state stand against markets, monopolies, the tech giants and overmighty subjects generally, to those with the 180 degree opposite stance, who see the modern state machinery as having already interfered much too far into the private sector and personal liberties. The former think the State should be bigger, the latter that it should be firmly cut back.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Ali M. Mahmoud
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the then British Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, deplored the way public opinion was entering into the delicate realms of national strategy and foreign policy. He feared that too much popular involvement in the nation’s foreign affairs would be very dangerous. The cacophony of fragmented and volatile public opinion had no place, he believed, in the tactful diplomatic handling of relations and interests between the great powers.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
thearticle.com | David Howell |Ali M. Mahmoud
Essay Three in Lord Howell’s trilogy on the Communications Revolution This is my final try (at any rate for the moment) to divert much deeper attention to a central feature of our altered lives and circumstances. It is pervasive, growing all the time, global, national, local, highly political, right at the front door, deeply influential in all our daily existence, lifestyles, hopes, fears and attitudes.
