Sometimes it seems we live in a world where every virtue is twisted and perverted into vice. Love for country is one such virtue, for it is one element which provides for a healthy identity and a basis for those moral sentiments which bind us together as a voluntary community against adversity, both everyday and existential.

Love of country, for good and ill

We can have too much of a good thing: nationalism becomes militant and dangerous. Legitimate love for our country is rightly tempered by respect fo...

🇺🇦 With talk of UK “boots on the ground” in Ukraine to keep any peace, remember the fiasco of Iraq was supposed to have taught everyone what questions to ask. 💡Now would be the time to apply those lessons. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81f19440f0b62305b91a48/TheGoodOperation_WEB.PDF

🙋🏻‍♂️“The methods of money production in society today are profoundly corrupting in ways that would matter to everyone if they were clearly understood.” 📣As gold flows out of the Bank of England and CoinDesk reports on the US National Bitcoin Reserve, here’s my 2014 speech on money 📺Bitcoin, gold and the Bank of England 🗽The most important subject we face is discussed too little: how money is created and how the process corrupts society. My speech on "Money Creation and Society".

Bitcoin, gold and the Bank of England

The most important subject we face is discussed too little: how money is created and how the process corrupts society. My speech on "Money Creation...

Too soon Nigel. Too soon. Nigel Farage is now treading a fearful path to grand failure of his own making; today’s “sources close” story tells me he knows it. The future of our nation already rests on the shoulders of Nigel Farage: he will decide the next government. He has trapped himself by his success and seems to know it.

Too soon Nigel. Too soon.

The future of our nation already rests on the shoulders of Nigel Farage. He has trapped himself by his success and seems to know it. He will decide...

❓With the post-war social democratic system in collapse as it runs out of young workers to meet pension, health and care obligations, would returning to the EU solve our growth problem? 🤦🏻‍♂️Not a chance.

Return to Growth

There is hope. Lord Jon Moynihan's "Return to Growth" sets out a clear plan. Of 15 years. The sooner we start...

New article: Compromise As we left the EU, eventually I did and my word did it hurt. But it was the right decision The price tarnishes the prize. But you get to keep the prize and that is why it must be done. We all prefer total and final victory. It is rare. Leaders compromise. And that is tough.

Compromise – a dirty word

We all prefer total and final victory. It is rare. Leaders compromise. And that is tough.

❓Is someone’s birthday coming up? 😂I’ll be glad to help. 🔗

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👀Yes, that’s right: Journalists - five scenarios 📣You are making the news. Here’s how to survive and win. 5️⃣These are the five key situations with journalists you will face as an MP: 🧻the press release 🧐the proactive individual briefing 😱the unsolicited inquiry 🏉the scrum 🥴lunch

Journalists: five scenarios

You are making the news. Here’s how to survive and win.

🔥”Much more usual in politics is scandal or danger to the community. 😡“Politicians are always alleging one thing or another or seeking to juxtapose the burning platform with the sunlit uplands. 🌱“That is the fertile territory on which the politician usually operates.” 🔟Can't live with them. Can't deport them to South Sudan: ten rules for working with the Press

Journalists – ten rules for working with the Press.

Can't live with them. Can't deport them to South Sudan. Ten rules for working with the Press.

I spent 14 years in politics experiencing the “fundamental attribution error”, yet Paul Dolan explained it in the first 30 minutes of his new book, out in May. That’s why together, The Provocation People can help your business make a step change in fostering cognitive diversity without the downsides. Please contact us for an initial conversation.

Fundamental Attribution Error – The Provocation People

✍🏻Journalists 🤷🏻‍♂️Can't live with them. Can't deport them to South Sudan. Ten rules for working with the Press 🐺They will get you if they can. It is in their nature.

Journalists – ten rules for working with the Press.

Can't live with them. Can't deport them to South Sudan. Ten rules for working with the Press.

Fundamental Attribution Error How I learned more about the causes of hostility from Prof Paul Dolan in 30 minutes than in 14 years of Parliament

Fundamental Attribution Error – The Provocation People

🪫Via Energy Dashboard, this morning’s generation mix:

Energy Dashboard

Live GB Electricity Generation, Carbon Intensity & Demand – Energy Dashboard

Real-time half-hourly data on GB electricity generation, renewable vs fossil fuel mix, power flow visualisation and carbon intensity from National ...

🔥We need gas. Plenty of it. 💡And a strategic policy of gas to nuclear:

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Steve Baker: Wanted - a politically and economically viable path to low emissions | Conservative Home

We need to think a little less about the targets, and much more about what people can afford.

🎙️“Funnily enough, I’m not the famous one!” 🤷🏻‍♂️ Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the curse of easy answers - me for The Rundown with PoliticsHome, wherever you get your podcasts

🗽The business cards are in: one for me and one for the Director of Fighting for a Free Future, Harry Richer 🔗Discover more and donate:

Fighting for a Free Future

Zero tolerance: the politics of child sexual exploitation by gangs Politicians, officials and the police must show an absolute commitment to the rule of law, including equal application, plus the courage staunchly to defend victims and the innocent.

Zero tolerance: the politics of child sexual exploitation by gangs

Politicians, officials and the police must show an absolute commitment to the rule of law, including equal application, plus the courage staunchly ...

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Whipping Yarns: A rebel whip's tale - A conversation with former MP Steve Baker

A rebel whip's tale - A conversation with former MP Steve Baker - Parliament Matters podcast, Episode 65

In our latest ‘Whipping Yarn’ we sit down with Steve Baker, whose reputation as the "Hard Man of Brexit" made him a key figure in the UK’s de...

⛓️‍💥“We need to break out of this idea that there's one size fits all, that there's a consensus around things. We need to be listening to different perspectives to really make better and effective decisions.” 🗣️Paul interviews Steve on his podcast Breaking Beliefism 🔗

Rt Hon Steve Baker | Breaking beliefism

Listen to Rt Hon Steve Baker from Breaking beliefism. In this episode, Prof Paul Dolan talks to Rt. Hon Steve Baker, former MP and Minister in the ...