The State We're In: (Revised Edition)

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That’s great news Tyla BUT I can’t go. I’ve got a solo deal myself and I don’t think Bam can either as he is going to be playing drums for me!” As an artist his clearly distinct painting style has earned him countless accolades. His work is often exhibited in galleries around the world and he has participated in many global art, film and installation projects. Apparently, despite the sheer statistical improbability of something not being against the law in modern Britain, it was entirely legal. Yet it occurred to no one who had taken an oath to serve that something was plainly wrong here. The economic challenge of the next decade is to create a viable knowledge economy. New Labour has laid some foundations via its science investment and its strengthening of universities. It now needs to go further by invigorating the idea of stakeholding and business building. On this, at least, it could find agreement.

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Confident gratitude for this grace is what empowers us to hand over our worries. He really does hold us. That’s true eternally, and it’s true now, even at the end of the ages. Matthew leads Gateway Church, Poole. With his wife Grace, Matthew enjoys going for long runs and bike rides along the coast and deep into the Dorset countryside. Having four daughters he is also a keen student of female psychology. Matthew thought he was going to be an agricultural research scientist but somehow ended up as a pastor. This has confirmed his belief in the sovereignty of God. I kid you not, Kusworth managed to miss the same flight at noon the following day. And this time he only had to travel from Wardour Street! Our mate Pedro managed to get him on the next flight though. Unfortunately, it involved changing planes in Frankfurt. I can tell you from experience that Frankfurt Airport is not the easiest place to navigate – and Kusworth had removed his moccasins and drunk a quarter of his litre bottle of Bells. Amazingly, he arrived in Finland and the studio – only a day and a half late – with a quarter of a bottle left. We celebrated by drinking the remains and recording an abysmal version of whatever. We erased it the next day. Unfortunately. I bet it was classic bedlam. As we sat in the bar at Liverpool Street Station we were approached by a male and female police officer and asked to accompany them to a makeshift police station – a portacabin on the station concourse – where Kusworth and I were strip-searched. Apparently someone had reported us for smoking ‘strange-looking and smelling cigarettes’. It turned out to be my Gitane Internationals – a long, white, king-size French cig. Now, alas, extinct.Charmin’ I thought. Mind you, Hornby and me couldn’t even persuade the toilet cleaner to take it off our hands. This loss of capacity is not just a structural or cultural failure, but rather a dangerous compound of both. British institutions have lost a sense of the national interest as being the legitimate end they serve. Instead of their duly-appointed political masters having the mandate of heaven, civil servants follow a self-interested and self-perpetuating agenda of their own. We thus have the worst of both worlds: a big bureaucracy but a pathetic state.

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Human beings have almost always existed in societies with high fertility and high mortality. We grew up surrounded by brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles, and surrounded by death. Now we grow up in small and often fractured family units, without much wider family, but with a generational stretch as increasing longevity means our parents, grandparents, even great-grandparents are a part of our lives far longer than is ‘natural’. For those based outside of the UK, the organisers will also investigate additional means of support towards travel costs where possible (e.g., from Embassies, Trusts and Foundations). Engel gives the example of it becoming a legal requirement in 1973 to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. Not to wear a helmet might seem madness (riding a motorcycle, period, might seem madness) but a motorcycle helmet doesn’t make life any safer – or more dangerous – for anyone other than the biker. So why should the individual not be free to make that decision for themselves? How did we become this vulnerable? Everyone realises at an intuitive level that Britain isn’t working: that in some deep, fundamental way, an irreversible rot has set in — of leadership and management, of institutions and methods.I thought that British consumers, saturated with debt from the 1980s, could hardly rescue the British economy again and, even if they did, that our export earners were so weakened by Thatcherism that if the economy grew at any meaningful rate, Britain would be left with a huge trade deficit. Companies could only find a way out by being offering ever meaner and insecure work. I began the book six months after Britain's exit from the ERM, when, without a decisive change of course, the best bet seemed more of the previous 20 years of economic decline.

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Nikki Sudden had auditioned for us that week. He didn’t fit, him playing an acoustic guitar didn’t really go with our image and music at the time, but he mentioned a friend of his from Birmingham, Dave Kusworth, who was coming to London that weekend to help him promote his new single ‘Big Store’. They were playing at the Rough Trade shop off Portobello Road and he asked me to go along. I think Hornby played a snare drum. All we did was play ‘Big Store’ for 20 minutes outside the shop to bemused passers-by and about half a baker’s dozen standing to attention and then we all got very drunk. There were all sorts of shenanigans. It culminated, or should I say peaked, at me losing my top teeth in a marathon drinking-contest not far from the North Pole. I did win, though Miettinen will dispute this fact. The pride of the Fin versus the madness of the Englishman. So, for the record, I will rule it a tie. A trivial example perhaps, but a metaphor for the way in which our lives are increasingly regulated and controlled.But over 10 years, the world has inevitably moved on. Some of the darker concerns of The State We're In have not happened, in part because New Labour, although fashionably derided, has stemmed and reversed some of the adverse social trends, and in part because some of the assumptions I made about what was economically sustainable and how capitalism worked in an era of globalisation have proved wrong. Rather than policies sloganised as “austerity” or “outsourcing” having shrunk the state, these measures have conscripted much of what we laughably describe as the private sector as auxiliaries of the state, whether in propagating progressive diversity agendas, or complying with the ever-growing mass of regulation pouring forth from parliament. Thus the already incapable British state is weakened still further as it swells ever larger. Covid has pushed this situation to crisis point, with sections of public sector Britain seeming to have all but given up. All with official encouragement by so many others whose salaries are taxed out of those who remain in private employment. Much of the media has been shy to give due coverage to this collapse of the public service ethic as if doing so is somehow unpatriotic or poor form. Truss’s disastrous month in power, and the sudden u-turn on her growth agenda, have simply been a fast-forward replay of previous failed Conservative governments from David Cameron to Boris Johnson, set to the Benny Hill theme. Arctic Festival: International Snow-Ice Sculpture Competition in Rovaniemi (Finland). Deadline: 1 Nov 2023

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Until the 1830s and the development of steam locomotives no one had ever moved faster than the speed of a galloping horse. Woeful productivity figures and a weakening pound tell us the grim truth in statistics and graphs, but it’s also staring us all in the face. Around 30 per cent of the British workforce still allegedly works from home, including in the public sector, where 29 per cent are working remotely full time, and 62 per cent are working remotely at least one day a week. W hat went wrong with Liz Truss? How did the clear winner of the first Tory leadership election of 2022 throw it all away? It was by being in office when the music stopped. To see how Truss failed is more than a story of her personal incompetence, it is to appreciate that she squandered no great and glorious inheritance. For the disastrous rule at the Treasury of George Osborne and Philip Hammond and Rishi Sunak (and before them Brown and Darling), left her nothing to fritter away. For a generation Britain has refused to face up to its problems. Now it can no longer look away. In the time it takes to fly from London to Chicago, each finds something in the other that they didn’t even realise they needed.

Britain had developed a fractured '30/30/40'society - 30 per cent disadvantaged and marginalised; 30 per cent insecure; 40 per cent privileged. This was created by a capitalism preoccupied with short-term financial gains and the next deal rather than building businesses and husbanding workforces. Now we had melded ourselves into a tight drinking unit, apart from Karl who preferred coke – no, cola – we now had to prove our worth by doing some live shows. We started off in Helsinki at Lepakko. I did hear some whispers though. One of the most profound was one of the most simple. It’s Christianity 101: don’t worry, be grateful.