Julian March is a British columnist and essayist known for his scepticism of technocratic politics and his defence of national identity, free expression and cultural continuity. First gaining attention through online commentary and short-form essays, March developed a reputation for combining sharp humour with an instinctive distrust of fashionable orthodoxies. His writing frequently focuses on the tensions between globalisation and local identity, the decline of public confidence in institutions, and the cultural consequences of rapid social change.
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Britain's greatest educational divide is not between private and state schools, but between the best and worst state schools. Abolishing independent education would not change who succeeds. It would simply redirect affluent, ambitious and well-connected parents into the state sector, leaving the weakest pupils competing for even fewer opportunities.
Britain has built far more than a housing market. It has built an entire economic model upon ever-rising property values. As house prices soared, politicians congratulated themselves on “growth”, homeowners refinanced, banks expanded lending and the country consumed against paper wealth. But property prices cannot indefinitely outgrow purchasing power. Now, with transactions slowing and affordability breaking down, Britain is beginning to discover what happens when an economy built on asset inflation starts running out of road.
Andy Burnham has become the acceptable face of Labour populism: media-friendly, emotionally fluent and packaged as a champion of the North. But beneath the carefully constructed image lies a familiar political instinct — more state control, more public spending and more bureaucracy. Britain does not need another eloquent manager of decline. It needs a fundamental change of direction.
Modern Britain has developed an almost neurotic inability to discuss the British Empire honestly. We are encouraged to remember only the sins and never the achievements. Yet judged against the age in which it existed, the Empire abolished slavery on a global scale, spread parliamentary institutions and left behind legal and political systems still relied upon across much of the world today.