Tim PendryThe Sabisky Affair & The Right To Be WrongThe Sabisky Affair is interesting because it raises a number of issues that our intellectually deficient media are working hard to ignore…9 min read·Feb 19, 2020----
Tim PendryReview — “Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?”,I bought this (full price hard back) on a recommendation from The Financial Times. I really should have known better. It was deeply…5 min read·Feb 17, 2020----
Tim PendryThe Utter Boredom that is the 2019 ElectionOne of my correspondents has expressed concern that I have not produced a briefing or an essay on the current election. There have been…10 min read·Dec 5, 2019----
Tim PendryA Cynic’s View of the British Political PartiesWe are now well into our General Election campaign so I thought it might be useful to non-British observers if I provided a cynical pen…13 min read·Nov 6, 2019----
Tim PendryAm I a Conservative? Are You a Conservative?This essay must be understood as a commentary (an almost medieval approsch to thinking) on an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of…12 min read·Oct 28, 2019----
Tim PendryIs the European Union An Empire?This essay is going to frustrate a lot of readers because it puts forward a heavily over-simplified theory of empire that will immediately…19 min read·Oct 18, 2019----
Tim PendryBook Review: ‘Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future’ by Andrew McAfee and Erik…McAfee and Brynjolfsson’s 2017 book is a good run down of commercially disruptive technologies, at least those disruptive as of that year…8 min read·Oct 7, 2019----
Tim PendryThe Rise of ‘Dark Tourism’Gitta Sereny has an interesting passage on the misleading history once offered during German school trips to Dachau which can be found in…18 min read·Oct 3, 2019----
Tim PendryOn Contempt for State, Parliament and Party Under Current ConditionsThe last ten days have been amongst the most remarkable in British history but there is no point in detailing once again what happened and…13 min read·Sep 17, 2019----
Tim PendryThe Great Poker Game — Politics And Not Constitutional Convention Matter In The EndWhile we struggle, all of us, to understand the three-dimensional chess game played by politicians, one involving high hysteria, lawfare…7 min read·Sep 3, 2019----