Continued decline

September 30, 2025

An excellent, forensic disquisition by Jack on the manifold problems of an Opposition that thinks focusing on the past and trying to bring back the glorious 1950s, is a recipe for electoral success in a fundamentally changed world. It really reflects the desire of conservatives across the Western world to secure the future by returning to the certainties of a past age that has no chance, thank God, of returning.

Currently, Labor offers no significant alternative in many policy areas and also seems to have a similar, if less urgent, fixation. In a sense, they are all desperately trying to revive the dying Western empire of colonialism and imperialism without recognising the growing emergence of a multipolar world which has a focus on equality of nations, peaceful co-existence and respect for mutual sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Their shared fear of China comes from them both living in a hall of mirrors where their own predilections are reflected back to them about far more sophisticated and civilised cultures.